Sparking plug torque

[StressCraxx]

A drop of oil on the threads of each plug from the dipstick. Thread plugs in with fingers, torque to 20 lbs/ft. Torque specs from the Machinist's handbook tables are for oil lubricated threads. I have never stripped a spark plug hole in 48 years of car repair.

Never-seeze often seems to wind up where it should not be. Told my engine builder he wasn't going to get another flagon of rum if he ever did that again.

[jk952]

.....using a torque wench to fit plugs (shaking head).....never have and never will .....OK! .....Yes..I know its in the manual..... Yar-de -Yar-de Yar.... what's wrong with you people ....don't you have sense of feel....flame away

I agree..

For the first time ever! I used a torque wrench on the plugs in the Elan, and lo and behold it sure felt way too tight, so I stopped short of full click on some. Even checked two torque wrenches against eachother. I am afraid to remove them now .
I was debating posting to see if the manual was incorrect.
Never had a plug leak, break, or seize when I did them by feel; back to the feel method for me!

re the anit sieze - Copper and aluminum are on opposite ends of the galvanic series, I realise not in salt water but, hmm should Cu be used?; notwithstanding the copper head gasket surface

Jack