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Originally Posted by Mike Murrell
Good idea about the torque wrench.
The torque consideration on those 10mm bolts is pretty much the same as the 722.3 MB transmissions.
If you over-do it. you'll cut small circular rings in the pan and create intermittent leaks.
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After doing some major work on my car, I would say that fooling around with an engine/transmission containing aluminum components REQUIRES a torque wrench and actually using it. I know that good ones are expensive, but no one IMHO who owns one of these cars and touches a wrench to them can't afford the ones at Harbor Freight. Industrial quality? Probably not. Usable if not abused? Yes.
Mistakes can be very expensive. And my "torque wrench" in my wrist is seriously uncalibrated after years of not doing this work!