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Jeepster4wd
March 9th, 2004, 20:16
installing cylinder head on my 4.0 and it says to use a sealent for head bolt #11. Would regular loctite work? what about RTV sealent? can anything besides the loctite 592 be used???
Arakele
March 9th, 2004, 20:35
good ole fashioned blue or red loctite works every time
5-90
March 9th, 2004, 22:21
Bolt #11 goes into the water jacket - use either LocTite PST or #545 (REALLY REALLY good pipe dope or Hydraulic sealant) or a quality plumber's pipe dope will work as well. Don't use teflon tape for this, last time, I used Harvey's Teflon Pipe Dope, since I couldn't find by bottle of 545 (but all three will work.)

If you are going to put anything on the threads of the other bolts, I suggest using never-seez instead of LocTite - once you torque the bolts, they don't go anywhere, and the ends of those bolts get pretty warm...

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Jeepster4wd
March 9th, 2004, 23:38
oh ic. would something like this work ?

http://www.partsamerica.com/PartDetails.asp?SourceArea=SHOP&SourcePage=SEARCHRESULTS&MfrCode=PTX&MfrPartNumber=59214&CategoryCode=3289
5-90
March 10th, 2004, 00:51
oh ic. would something like this work ?

http://www.partsamerica.com/PartDetails.asp?SourceArea=SHOP&SourcePage=SEARCHRESULTS&MfrCode=PTX&MfrPartNumber=59214&CategoryCode=3289

Good to go! If you've got it handy, it will work nicely...

5-90