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General Discussion

Oil on sparkplug

Thread starter Yamaha242lsdallas
Start date Apr 27, 2016

Yamaha242lsdallas

Jet Boat Addict

Apr 29, 2016

bumpy said:
View attachment 36334 It looks like 5.9 ft-lb. The gasket has a section that wraps each spark plug opening, so this is probably the issue. Good luck!

Perfect, Thanks! Kinda low on the torque settings, good thing I did not try to just go by "feel" . I have a feeling it would be easy to strip out the threads.