Seems the intake hold-down bolts would hold fine, and not back out, without putting loc-tite on them. But the Helm manual and the Chilton manual say to do it. Although I haven't seen anybody on here specifically say they do it.

Seems like it will just create more of a clean-up mess the next time I have to remove them, with cleaning out the bolt holes, and not getting any into the intake ports in the process....

What's everybody else doing? Loc-tite or no?



p.s.
I put a helicoil in one rocker hold-down, and did not put loc-tite on it, will this be a problem later? (actually it's 2 stacked) I didn't read anything about loc-tite on helicoils until last night.... The tangs are broken off both of them, so I don't know how I could change anything on it now anyway. I did put teflon paste on the rocker bolt when I reinstalled it.

 

i wouldnt see a problem with out loctite on the intake bolts as long as they get torqued down, but if you wanted to it wouldnt hurt. As for your rocker that is helicoiled as long as that torqured fine i dont se a problem down the road

 

my intake has been on and off more times then i'd like to count and i've never used loctite. justs tq them down to there proper specs and in the right sequence and your good.

 

Cool, that's what I wanted to hear.... That's what I suspected, but just wanted to hear it from somebody that's done it.

 

I din't put loctite on my intake bolts either...