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[Blaine B.]

What is the range of your torque wrench?

Setting it at 9 foot pounds may have not been enough to make an audible click. Some torque wrenches will barely do anything at all when set at the extreme low of the scale.

You would have probably been better off using an inch pound torque wrench and then set it to 108 inch pounds, which is equal to 9 foot pounds.

Too late now. But that's probably why they stripped out and/or snapped.

 

[Rokon]

Tighten until the bolt gets loose again?

9ft lbs is about what a light ham fisted mechanic can do with a wrench. Use and in. lb wrench next time.

 

[Blaine B.]

Just curious, was it 1/2" drive or 3/8" drive?

At any rate, hopefully the bolts stripped out and not the threads. But even so, you can re-tap for a size or two larger and see how that works out.

 

[Blaine B.]

If these screws are just holding the oil pan on, they don't need to be super tight. Your hondabond gasket compound should be fine unless the oil pan got moved around before it dried.