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AArgh! It's your call on whether you wish to use anti-seize or not... and whether you wish to put a little oil in that frying pan before you fry an egg in it, or a little layer of grease and flour in that 9" x 13" pan before you put the cake batter in it...
For my part, I grew up with the notion that lug nuts on cars HAD to be jumped on and banged on and cursed and fought... because some complete (*&(*& had put them on too tightly, and Minnesota salted winters had done the rest. But I have NO desire to do that any more. Do you? Knowing that there's an alternative?
Or the almuminum engine from a Corvair I rebuilt. Horrid. I wished never to do that to anyone else, all that SEIZING.
There ARE published compensation (reduction) tables for torqueing fasteners, if you want to lube them with oil, grease, Crisco, anti-seize... and still get things right.
e.g. "* If lubrication has been applied to the bolt and/or the nut (other than the normal protective oil film), multiply the recommended torque by the appropriate factor shown in the Lubrication Factor table. n.b. Antiseize lubricants can reduce torque required by approximately 20%."
From http://mdmetric.com/tech/data1torque.html
So do a little .8 x conversion in your head, and live happily ever after!
For a Loctite brochure see http://stealth316.com/misc/antiseize.pdf
and especially the right-most column on page 3, which shows typical torque value reductions of about 15%. Easy! And satisfying, with no calories, no risk of cancer, or STDs... I can't think of a better way to have fun.
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Gregg; Mpls, MN; 1987 745, 1967 Amazon 4-dr.
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