Diesel Vanagon oil drain bolt torque spec

[mStrad]

Hi Everyone

Does anyone know what the torque setting should be when tightening this oil drain bolt on a diesel T3 vanagon? I prefer not to guess what “snug” means. Also is there supposed to be a crush washer on it? If so what would be the part #?
Thanks in advance.

[crazyvwvanman]

Never a washer on that kind of drain plug.
Bentley says 15 ft lb for drain plug torque.

page 17.4

Mark

[valvecovergasket]

is that the original bolt for the factory diesel pans? i have a brickwerks reproduction pan and it came with those normal copper washer + shouldered bolt versions on both ends of the pan
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[pjn_wyo]

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=620788

Lots of info here.

I have a new pan (purchased from Brickwerks that I think is the same that VanCafe sells...) that has two plugs that both require crush washers.

[danfromsyr]

do note that I have personally had a freak incident where the stock plug like the OP shows backed out and fell out of the oil pan while on the road coming home.

the miracle saving grace was that this happened within 1 house down from turning into my driveway. I was greeted with a large pool of hot oil on the driveway as I exited the van.

I now cross drill the bolt head and safety wire it to something.

if it can't spin it can't depart the pan.
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[mStrad]

Mine didn’t have a washer with it so I guess it’s an original pan.

[?Waldo?]

There are two different diesel Vanagon oil pans. One of them was for the non-turbo engines and the other was for the turbo engines. They are the same aside from the following differences. The turbo pan has a bung for the turbo oil return line, it has a drain plug at the front AND the rear of the pan and both plugs are the typical crush washer design. The non-turbo pan has no bung for the turbo oil return and has the single tapered drain plug pictured at the beginning of this thread.

[Vanagon Nut]

[crazyvwvanman]

I think VW produced 5 versions of the pan.
Also there is at least 1 aftermarket version.

The photo the OP put with his questions shows the earliest pan drain plug.

Mark