bradleyheathhays

The bolts I'm wondering about are...

- upper and lower shock mounts, front and back
- upper and lower control arm bolts
- sway bar link to axle
- sway bar link to sway bar
- sway bar bracket to subframe
- rear leaf spring bolts - going through the bushings - front and rear
- rear left spring shackle bolts - going from shackle to subframe

caged

i wouldn't loc-tite any of those. i would use anti-seize on every one of those bolts.
if you do choose to loc-tite any of those, i would only use blue loc-tite. if you put red, you might not get them back out without heating up enough to burn off the loc-tite.

investinwaffles

I antisieze pretty much every bolt now, unless it specifically calls for loctite like the driveshaft u-joint bolts, steering gear bolts, differential pin bolt, etc.

Generally speaking, I have not had any back out on me yet but I always check torque after 100 miles, then 500 miles, then 1000 miles just to be sure (critical bolts like the crossmember mounting bolts, leaf springs, etc).

It sucks way worse to break a bolt vs. having to check torque every now and then

Tbone289

^ This.

fb97xj1

The only place i have ever used loctite (blue only, i dont use red at all) were driveshaft bolts. And very very little. Everything else gets anti sieze or nothing at all. Go easy with the anti sieze. You dont need a lot. Same with loctite, should you ever use it.

bradleyheathhays

Right on thanks for the advice.

Just curious but would using too much anti-sieze cause any problems...maybe make it too easy to back out on it's own?

Tbone289

I've never seen a negative result from "overusing" anti-seize other than a mess...