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deltabravo
Nomad
Apr 08, 2020

Tightening the A/C bolt, putting Thread Lock on them

I completed another project over the weekend of putting some thread lock on my A/C bolts "before" the loosened up and I ended up with a water leak. Video of the project On my truck camper I've h...
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Dick_B
Explorer
Apr 08, 2020
As I remember the Thread Lock guy explained that when a bolt/nut was tightened there was somewhere around 50% space left over that the fluid fills in to cause the locking. (not sure of the space anymore)

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