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Hah hah...that's why us younguns got ya'll old birds to learn us......now if only we could get Manufacturers to use the stuff...then we'd be good to go!
Hah hah...that's why us younguns got ya'll old birds to learn us......now if only we could get Manufacturers to use the stuff...then we'd be good to go!
JR
What you'll find, is that not only do they NOT use anti-sieze, they actually put thread-lock on the starter bolts. They don't want those bolts to back out, EVER. The top one on mine wouldn't back out, and I wound up chewing the head up trying. I took a dremel and removed the head completely, then removed the bottom bolt. (BTW, the bottom was saturated with oil from a drooling rear main). Once I got the starter out, WD40, a little tapping with a hammer, and a little wiggling back and forth, and it backed right out. I anticipated this from having to remove the bolts on a water pump that thread into the aluminum timing cover on my 86 Bird. Throw a little caustic coolant in with thread-lock on a steel bolt in aluminum stock, and you have a bolt that will be there from now on.
One other thing not mentioned, but it's generally a good idea to paint the non-threaded part of the bolt to keep corrosion from the dissimilar metals to a minimum. I used a copper flake based antisieze when I put new Grade 8 bolts in to replace the mild steel ones that came on the truck.
