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Aowner

11-04-2006 11:23:36




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How many of you use anti-seeze while installing spark plugs. I use the spray on and also some that has a brush in a can. I use high temp on exhaust bolts or studs.




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jerrycpp(WA)

11-06-2006 18:10:16




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 Re: anti-seeze in reply to Aowner, 11-04-2006 11:23:36  
Believe it or not, Armite Anti Sieze was (and in my shop sometimes still is) also used as an anti-scuff heavy duty lube to keep new cam and lifters from tearing themselves up in the first few minutes of a rebuilt engine's life. For many years we dabbed a bit of it on the bottom of all new lifters, and also brushed some around the cam lobe.



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Hobo,NC

11-04-2006 18:25:37




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 Re: anti-seeze in reply to Aowner, 11-04-2006 11:23:36  
When the anti-seize came out I used it on plugs. Then when it came time to replace�em I found it made�em come out harder so I am back to one drop of oil and not had a problem. I only replace a few hundred a year so what I find may not be justifiable. Sum plugs are a bear to git out and No slick stuff izz gonna help, a 300 ford inline 6 comes to mind ,4.9 fer the newbes..



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Johnski

11-04-2006 15:51:44




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 Re: anti-seeze in reply to Aowner, 11-04-2006 11:23:36  
I use CAT brand copper anti-sieze on just about everything I work on. I recently took the blade off of our dozer (a 1967 D-7) that I'm pretty sure hadn't been off since 1976, yep thirty years. There are 4 half-inch by three inch bolts holding a flange on the end of the adjusting bars for the blade. Some of the bolts were rotted down to about 5/16 diameter under the head but they all came out and the threads were as good as new,you could still see the traces of never-seeze on them. This dozer only runs about twice a year,it sits the rest of the time, and the mechanic had welded his initials and the date on the blade when he repaired it. The two old timers who are still here tell me that it has never been apart since. Jf

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buickanddeere

11-04-2006 19:52:04




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 Re: anti-seeze in reply to Aowner, 11-04-2006 11:23:36  
A little dab will do you on almost everything and anything. Anti seize included. I use anti-seize on everything non edible. Future disassembly does not require a torch or drilling out. Wonderful stuff.



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Bud in NC

11-04-2006 16:03:21




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 Re: anti-seeze in reply to Aowner, 11-04-2006 11:23:36  
I use it on everything I think I might *ever* have to work on again!
One thing to remember - the torque charts list "dry threads" and "WET threads" - Wet threads are lubricated. Anti-sieze counts as "lubricated" - it's *REAL* easy to over torque with anti-size! Use the charts!!!



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jddriver

11-04-2006 15:44:22




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 Re: anti-seeze in reply to Aowner, 11-04-2006 11:23:36  
love it



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Fawteen

11-04-2006 14:28:00




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 Re: anti-seeze in reply to Aowner, 11-04-2006 11:23:36  
Love the stuff, but like they said below, a little goes a long way.

My favorite anti-seize story is from the volunteer fire department I'm with. Before my time (20+ years ago)they built their own tanker body out of sheet steel. Did a nice job too, that thing is still in service today, on it's third chassis.

Anyhow, when they built it, they were concerned about corrosion. Sooooo , they painted the whole inside of it with a coat of anti-seize. And we're STILL getting gray boogers out if it every time we fill a dump tank to this day...

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dr.sportster

11-04-2006 13:50:57




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 Re: anti-seeze in reply to Aowner, 11-04-2006 11:23:36  
I look at my plugs so often that I dont use any although Ive seen it called for in manuals.I use it with everything else almost and also combine with Loctite sometimes.I just used some copper type today on my Saturn motormount because its coming off again to get at the belt.I will say I found spray Harley -Davidson brand never-seize to be a horrible messmaker.Silver fingers,silver tools, silver workbench.Sometimes when I disassemble something years later I say oh good I used anti-seize.One can has lasted me a long time and I have three cans.The copper coat was a freebee left over from work and a Ferrari mechanic gave me a squeeze tube of Italian copper type I keep in my barn.Good stuff.

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ldj

11-04-2006 15:39:17




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 Re: anti-seeze in reply to dr.sportster, 11-04-2006 13:50:57  
dr.sportster,
Why would you want to use loctite and anti-seeze? One keeps things from coming out easy and the other makes things come out easy. OH well.

I make my own home brew anti-seze. I fill a baby food jar with grease from a grease gun. Then put about 1/2 tube of powered graphite and mix good.



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dr.sportster

11-05-2006 07:52:45




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 Re: anti-seeze in reply to ldj, 11-04-2006 15:39:17  
You just said it: one thing keeps things from coming out and one makes things come out easy.Despite the anti-seize the loctite stiil hardens.Works great on headbolts.



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Bob

11-04-2006 11:39:11




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 Re: anti-seeze in reply to Aowner, 11-04-2006 11:23:36  
You gotta be awful carefull when using anti-seize on spark plugs. If applied low enough on the threads so any gets on the tip of the plug, or drizzles in the cylinder and is blasted around by combustion, the metallic anti-seize compound will short out the insulator on the spark plug, and that will be the end of it.

My latest experience with that was about a year ago, when a guy towed a HEAVY old IH tandem truck with a 549 V-8 to my shop.

It wouldn't start at all. He said he had just replaced the spark plugs. Turns out he had slathered them with anti-seize, and shorted them out. (I had run a little while, 'til the anti-seize got blasted into the spark plugs.)

This is one place where "just a little" is better!

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