Re: To seize or not to seize...

[AHKai@aol.com]

I've been thinking alot about the anti'seize thing for awhile (not
really-but), and this is what I do to lessen the odds that a wheel will ever
come off.  After getting a flat in the bimmer one winter and not for the life
of me being able to get a couple of the wheel bolts loose (in fact, I bent
the bimmer lug wrench trying-those were pretty decent quality compared to
what I've seen lately i cars), for convenience, I started using A/S on the
wheel bolts and  light smear on the hubs as it was a problem getting the
wheel seperated from the hub.  Nowadays though, I only use the A/S on the
bolts in winter and check them often.  Never has one been loose (unless you
count the time I got the car back from my ex-mechanic with the bolts barely
finger tight-he forgot to tighten them) and it makes replacing wheels
extremely easy in the spring.  Just make sure if you do this you clean the
A/S off of the threads (hubs and bolts).  Seems like a good compromise to me.
 Even before when I used A/S year round,  I never had a bolt come loose.  I
did check them just about every week or so.  I still put a light smear on the
hubs, especially the rears (the wheels love to stick to the drums).  Damned
if you do, damned if you don't huh guys (gals).

In a message dated 96-10-15 00:30:45 EDT, you write:

<< If one uses M+S tires year round, and doesn't change the tires often, 
  it is very helpful in making the bolts removable by hand (i.e., by 
  torque wrench, not by fingers).  Otherwise, there is significant 
  corrosion, which can marginally damage the threads when the bolts are 
  removed.  Never did a bolt loosen after being torqued to 60 ft-lbs.   >>