My old can of McKay anti seize/ thread sealer is about done for.... Good stuff , but I guess its not made any more What are you guys using for thread sealant/ anti seize for cylinder head bolts etc etc etc . .
Damn BJR, I hurt myself laughing and then had to explain to my wife why I was having a laughing fit and then she cracked up. Back to post 1 I'd have to go check what anti seize I have but I don't think that it is also a thread sealer. The last real use of anti seize for me has been painting some on the hubs of my 98 BMW 528I when I stuck the type 5 wheels on so I could get them off. Things get a little strange when you are beating and kicking on a wheel and tire to get it to break loose from the hub and a drugged up homeless dude ambles by to see what you are doing. Dissimilar metals and electrolysis show up big time there.
are you installing head bolts that need sealer, or head bolts that need anti-seize, or head bolts that need thread lubricant? I use whatever is appropriate for what I'm assembling....
Not really fussy about what brand of anti-seize. My tip is on using it. That little brush on the lid just doesn't reach the bottom of the bottle. When it no longer reach, I cut the bottle in half and scoop up the remaining anti-seize into the next new bottle. Nothing gets wasted.
There ya go..... You know what Im talking about........ Its also a thread Sealer . Looks like the same type stuff Ive been using https://armitelabs.com/product/lp-250/
I buy never seize in the small tube, otherwise the brush type winds up getting contaminated with dirt. Sealer, I pick up ARP at my local speed shop.
I have the same can that I've had for several years but what I did was cut the brush attached to the lid off and use "dope" brushes available at any good hardware store. When I'm done using it I throw the brush away, that way it keeps the contents clean.
Every time I use antisieze from a jar or tube, I end up looking like the Tinman from the Wizard of Oz. Loctite make an antisieze in a stick (LOCTITE® LB 8060 - Henkel Adhesives). I gave it a try. It is easier to use without getting everwhere, but a lot more expensive (at least locally), and takes a lot more fiddling to get a decent smear on a bolt thread. Cheers, Harv
wheel cleaning acid used at the car wash tends to make the part of the hub (no matter how much you rinse it you can not get the acid out from where it seeped behind the rim)
My antiseize and thread sealant are two different products. I use Permatex for both, but thread sealant for head bolts, and Permatex copper antiseize for places I don't want bolts/nuts to seize up.
@goldmountain I have the opposite problem with my anti seize tub and brush The brush is too long and slammed into the bottom forcing the brush to be folded over 90 degrees. The tub I have is big so I will likely be dealing with it for the rest of my days
I quit using the aluminum based anti-seize. The lead based and the copper based don't seem to get everywhere and coat you into a tinman look alike. The Armite LP250 lead based is good stuff.
WHAT ARE YOU USING? World famous Loctite, the "original blue stuff." Hello Loctite has been one part of all of our tool boxes since we first started and that little tube found a home. The builders and racers at Reath Automotive used blue Loctite for all of their builds. So, they said if we were building modified motors, use the blue stuff sparingly, but on most everything. Most everything was something you might want to take off later-on for another rebuild. That bit of advice was great for us as our first motor was a long block 283 SBC. It was purchased from another small speed shop near our own neighborhood. It was a converted house located within Long Beach, but on the outskirts of Signal Hill oil fields. The house and a few others were still leftovers on this small dead end street that had those dinosaur oil pumpers going day and night. The speed shop was a small house with a nice driveway and open garage used as a workspace. As we walked into the main living room, it was converted to a glass counter and a wall full of shiny chrome parts. Other display cases had smaller parts and carburetors of all kinds. Then on one work counter still on another wall was the manifold section. The garage had an SBC motor set up with dual quads and a set of nice headers. We made an offer on a another set up long block SBC motor after they told us what was inside. It was less expensive than buying all of the separate parts. But, before we walked out, we purchased a 6 Stromberg carb set up for the SBC motor and a set of Hedman Headers. The owners knew us and they made a offer on a set of Chevy Truck heads + finned cover to us for buying all of those other race parts. So, yes, we bought the heads and went home happy. Jnaki The one thing they mentioned was that when they do engine work or work on other folks’ cars, they use Loctite. So, they also sold us several little tubes for us to finish building the 283 SBC motor in our own garage. For us, the first build of that 283 motor was a process and with 6 Strombergs, it ran good. Yes, we used the blue Loctite on everything. Luckily for us, the product worked, but 4 months later, my brother decided that he needed more power and that we needed to upgrade our 283 SBC motor. Luckily, the motor was tight, but came apart to start the larger cubic inch build, thank to Reath Automotive machine shop and parts department. From a 6 carb SBC motor, it turned out to be this 292 c.i. blower spec motor, with all new parts, for a new 671 Isky Gilmer Supercharger Belt Drive in the same 40 Willys Coupe. Yes, we continued to use the blue stuff for all of the zillion parts we needed to assemble the new SBC motor, to get it running. YRMV With this build, we approached the National Record of 12.40 with our 12.60 E.T. Note: For all of our toddler granddaughter days, anything we made or modified, like wheeled scooters or bikes had blue Loctite on all of the nuts and bolts. When she was on her scooter, we were following along in our Adult model of sidewalk scooters with a taller handle. All Loctite checked and suppled. No one wants to be interrupted with fixing parts that break or fall off when you are having a blast "scooting" around a huge park on the sidewalk.
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