rumblecloud
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Oh...great. Now I have to worry about what flavor anti-seize I use.
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Anti-Seize compound usage?
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Swetz
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LOL, that is funny!Oh...great. Now I have to worry about what flavor anti-seize I use.
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I use the regular neversieze on gland nuts.
As I previously stated, I have seen it work...Years ago, I was a mechanic for the utility company I currently work for. Back then the bucket trucks had 2 sets of cables. The cable end threaded into the cylinder. When replacing the cables (every 5 years), the cylinder had to be completly removed from the end. 5 years of sitting out in the weather, and these broke loose every time, if the guy before you used the neversieze. If not, out came the sawzall and off came the cylinder to get the 2 apart. That is all the proof I needed to use it in my personal life!
Swetz
Senior Member
OzDozer
Senior Member
Finding corroded fasteners where a previous installer failed to use anti-seize is enough to give you a seizure.
Welder Dave
Senior Member
I wish there was an anti-seize vitamin or something for aching bones and other body parts.
willie59
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Boss purchased a brand spanking new gas engine portable pressure washer today. It rolled in, looked it over, damn this thing is fancy, electric start and all. Kohler V twin engine, all pretty and clean. What do I do straight off the bat??? Yep, remove the exhaust manifold nuts and straightaway apply never seize to the studs then screw the nuts back on. Yeah, I'm anal about this stuff.
Swetz
Senior Member
I worked for a guy that made his own . He used powdered graphite that he got from the salvage store i also worked at . I dont remember but he ether used 80/90 gear oil or STP mixed in it. I use it on lug nuts all the time on my own stuff but not on other peoples stuff .
I used to apply anti seize to my lug nuts on my truck, never had a problem. Then bought a set of tires at CostCo and they rotate for free but at the first rotation a couple years ago they spent probably a half hour cleaning every lug and told me not to use the stuff... funny too just had a flat front on the hoe when the air valve got broke off and was planning to make sure and anti seize them when installing tomorrow.
They pulled one of guys in for some b/s and he told him to eat his dirty ass.
That didn't go over well. They picked through that truck with a magnifying glass for ANYTHING they could find.
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lol. Well, they did go to lug nut school, and are just following company policy & OEM torque procedures. Worried about your safety. Be sure to return after 100 miles for the retorque. Bless their hearts. They probably filled them tires with nitrogen, too. And used green valve stem caps.
1693TA
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Well, I still use it on mine near each time the lugs are off. I also do use a pressure washer on the wheels of trucks so anything external to the threaded portion, (which does nothing) is washed away. It's worked far too many years for me to stop. Once the nuts are broken free, fingers will remove them from the parent studs. Very few exceptions to this unless a numbskull with an impact wrench has been there first.
eKretz
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I have used anti-seize on lug studs for near 30 years. Nary a problem. I am in the camp of "use it on just about everything" like some of the other guys who responded.
hosspuller
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Lug nuts on my antique Porsche car have Anti seize from the factory. Steel studs, aluminum nuts. I always require any tire service to use a special socket I supply, to remove the nuts. And leave the car outside for me to use my torque wrench for final torque. Years ago, NTW screwed up the car before, my SOP.
Thumbs up to that,, they do fill with nitro, and balance every wheel.. but no green stems and I see they quit requiring a return to re torque ,, hypocrisy runs just so deep, you know most probably do it logically at home. . lol And they have the Nazi police at the gas station making sure old guys and women take those gas cans off the tail gate to fill, and have those pressure sensitive pump nozzles to make sure you freeze your butt off in a Gail force wind and tweak that back more,, but for an average of .10 to 20 cents savings I'll risk a sore back or head cold for a few hours
Truck Shop
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Only takes a short stint working around fertilizer/Ag to change ones tune about using anti-seize.
63 caveman
Senior Member
Living and working in the "rust belt" i get tired of extracting broken studs and bolts. I too use it on anything I may have to take back apart.
1693TA
Senior Member
This one works great for electrical conductivity and dissimilar metal joining. We used it extensively with stainless to carbon steel fastening and all electrical grounding/bonding scenarios.
https://www.amazon.com/Jet-Lube-Ant...1848&sbo=RZvfv//HxDF+O5021pAnSA==&sr=8-3&th=1
Another that is a more widely recognized product and pretty much a direct competitor:
www.henkel-adhesives.com
I like the Jet-Lube products but any of them will separate when setting on a shelf or in a hot toolbox requiring agitation or remixing of the product.
https://www.amazon.com/Jet-Lube-Ant...1848&sbo=RZvfv//HxDF+O5021pAnSA==&sr=8-3&th=1
Another that is a more widely recognized product and pretty much a direct competitor:
LOCTITE® LB 8008 C5-A
LOCTITE LB 8008 C5-A is an exclusive anti-seize lubricant in a brush top form with copper and graphite suspended in high quality grease. It has an NLGI Grade of 0.
www.henkel-adhesives.com
I like the Jet-Lube products but any of them will separate when setting on a shelf or in a hot toolbox requiring agitation or remixing of the product.