I drained the oil and now I'm putting the oil plug back in. It says to replace
the rubber gasket on the drain plug in the manual but I don't see one on the drain plug to
replace. The drain plug is very different than the one illustrated in the manual.
Is there one or not ?
I don't want to have to re-drain the oil to put a gasket on if one is needed and
it gets a leak when I power up .
THANKS !!
The Snickster
Mark and Priscilla
07 Phaeton 40 QSH
Jeep Wrangler Toad
3 Yorkies (Winston , Abby , and Maggie)
I dunno anything about M-B engines, but if there's a slight recess under the head of the plug between the edge of the hex and the top thread, yeah, it's _probably_ supposed to have a rubber or aluminum or copper washer. Folks don't always check for it, or change it. I try to remember to buy one when I buy my filters.
Jim, "I think, therefore I am. I think."
'06 Tiger CX 'C Minus' on a Silverado 2500HD 4x4, 8.1 & Allison ('Loafer's Glory'); '07 Forester 2.5 ( the 'HANDBSKT'); '95 Toyota SR5 V-6 4x4 pickup, ARB locker, Bilsteins, Warn hubs & M8000, etc;
'94 968, M030 swaybars ('DOPPLER')
I changed the oil in my 8.1 Tiger and my Subaru yesterday, and both use rubber washers from the factory. AFAIK, the rubber (or metal) washers should ideally be replaced every oil change or two. The rubber takes a set. The soft metal ones are 'crush'-type washers. Getting it to function elastically takes slightly more torque each time, I think.
I have never seen a rubber washer on an oil drain plug. I have a few that take no washer and have had some that take a metal washer. The oil change instructions always say to replace the washer, but I have found that over many miles and many oil changes, there has been no leak from a reused metal washer. I'm not sure I would expect that from a rubber washer.
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