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  • 8 years later...

According to the NGK cattle dog, the torque for a spark plug with a flat seat, 14mm thread diameter in an Aluminium head, ie an Iridium plug in an RB25, is 18-21.6 lb-ft.

You need to remove and install the plug when the engine is cool.

do your plugs up until they seat, then give them about another 1/2 to 3/4 turn....

do this for NEW plugs only, because the washers compress. if you reinstall used plugs then you should do them up to a torque figure, which will be a fair bit less than 1/2 a turn after seating once the washers have already been compressed.

i approximate with "feel", based on how tight it was to turn 2/3 a turn when first installing. then when reinstalling i put the same effort in to tightening which ends up being maybe 1/10th of a turn. it's not much.

one day when i have money to burn i'll buy a torque wrench :)

Tighten until it goes loose again and then back it off half a turn. Jk. I've always done it by feel. Run them down by hand and then nip them with a ratchet. No more than 1 turn. U do get a calibrated wrist over time

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