Anti-seize?

[dragnet]

Is it recommended to use anti-seize on items such as the front cover, oil pan and water pump bolts?

 

[sven]

Not really. I typically use it where metal will rust. Your engine block is aluminum..

 

[MUSKYMAN]

Is it recommended to use anti-seize on items such as the front cover, oil pan and water pump bolts?

the front cover actually requires sealent on the long bolts to prevent them from leaking coolent out of the water jackets.

all of the other fasteners going into aluminum bores should have a light coating of oil on them and the threads both in the block or heads and the bolts themselves should be clean and free of any corosion that may remain from when they were removed.

using antisieze on these would not likely cause a problem but it is not considered best practice as these fasteners dont really have a expectation to come back apart until the next rebuild.

 

[wazazzle]

2x ditto what musky said

 

[ptschram]

Many years ago, I was told that under no circumstances should a fastener ever be assembled dry. Every fastener should be oiled, loc-tited, pipe-doped, or anti-seized.

I have lived by those words ever since.

Just yesterday, I picked up an "empty" oil bottle from the floor of the shop, cut the top off and have been using the residue to lubricate the bolts I'm putting into the engine I'm reassembling (headjob with cam replacement).

 

[DiscoJen]

Just yesterday, I picked up an "empty" oil bottle from the floor of the shop, cut the top off and have been using the residue to lubricate the bolts I'm putting into the engine I'm reassembling (headjob with cam replacement).

You cheap bastard!!!

 

[ptschram]

You cheap bastard!!!

At least you didn't say I was helping to reduce global warming by using something would otherwise have been thrown away (or put in the draining rack to recover the residual oil).

 

[rmuller]

What kind of oil would you recommend for the bolts? Would anything work, such as motor oil? Or anything specific?

 

[MUSKYMAN]

I keep a can of really thin 3 in 1 oil just for doing this...its cheap and easy.

 

[DiscoJen]

At least you didn't say I was helping to reduce global warming by using something would otherwise have been thrown away (or put in the draining rack to recover the residual oil).

Shoot, I will sit there and hold that bottle upside down until my arm hurts trying to get as much out of it as possible. We're not cheap...we're contributing to green policy!

 

[dragnet]

Thanks for the sound advice guys!

 

[ptschram]

Shoot, I will sit there and hold that bottle upside down until my arm hurts trying to get as much out of it as possible. We're not cheap...we're contributing to green policy!

And that my friend is why I bought an oil bottle draining rack! You do have to kick your way through the pile of un-drained bottles, but you'd be amazed at how much remains in the bottom.

The oil that is recovered is used for any of a number of purposes, including oiling bolts on reassembly, machining/tapping, etc.