Peanut Butter

Techline Coatings

This is the $hit for pushrods -Gel Tech

http://www.techlinecoatings.com/AssemblyGear.htm

 

This stuff works good for valvetrain https://www.torcousa.com/Products/P...a536eb52a29c&cat=MX-OFF Road&type=Maintenance

Its not cheap but a can goes a long way.

 

YES Mike that is the stuff, it is the stuff that has been used by every TF team I have been involved with and pretty much every one I know of.

 

Using Peanut butter on main studs is the way to go, but before you get all excited and make the switch you would be well advised to check main clearances. Torquing with peanut butter can and will close up main clearances. This is especiially true for forged aluminum blocks.

If you have to take it to a shop to check the mains bring the can with you. For fun you could check main clearances using the lubricant you would normally use, clean it up, apply peanut butter and torque again. You may be surprised. I was.

 

Do you use the same torque specs with the peanut butter?

 

I picked up a can awile back but now I'm finally going to use it.
Going to try it on the mains and head studs. Do you use the same torque specs using the butter.

 

just remember if you are pulling lets say 120 ft# it will pull more than that..Dave

 

Red Line has an engine assembly lube that you can use everywhere in the engine, including the pushrods, bearings, skirts, valve springs, and stud threads.

We do it in both a solid paste and in a new liquid formula. Teams use the two products in different places depending on what's convenient.

As Manton correctly recommends, you want a molybdenum disulfide based lube like this, but there's more to it than that. This product also emulsifies into the motor oil so it doesn't etch the bearings like other products.

Many of our teams that were using assembly lube in addition to the Detroit Diesel peanut butter have dropped both and gone exclusively to this lube.

 

i got my hemi turnkey and the guy before said he used the peanut butter for 4 years no probs so i carried on and it seemed fine....