The second you get your stage 2 home, CRACK THE PULLEY BOLTS LOOSE, REMOVE LOCTITE, AND RETIGHTEN THEM!!!!


mods can this be stickied, or added to the current S2 info or something?
so many people still dealing with this, and breaking bolts, having to cut/heat/pull the blower etc.

could all be easily avoided....

 

so will they break right then?

 

Yea i had to drill mine out cause my gm bit snapped plus the bolts were stripping!!

 

well theres a much better chance of breaking them free a few hours after them being loctited, than a few weeks...months right?

 

I see your point. Even with the blue loctite it can be a pain...however my bolts were just fine getting out. and it was about a two months later. and I didnt even have the GM tool...just used a square bit....

 

yeah mine came out like butter too.
but i feel bad for so many people who get their new pully,
and go through the hell of those bolts being unbreakable.

 

i damaged my stage 2 pulley pretty bad from it...

 

can you tell them not to use locktite

 

**** stage 2 anyway

 

there really is no need for loctight on the bolts i have had mine on for a couple of years now and never came loose or off

 

mine didn't have loctite on them but they used the impact gun them. That still sucked hardcore....

 

I'm sure other people are wondering this too... What exactly is "Loctite"? Is it they type of bolt or is it something they put under the bolt that makes it a pain in the ass to take off? That's my assumption. Can you just tell the dealer to not use it when they install you Stage 2?

 

its a liquid that turns into a hard plastic in the abscence of air...so when they put it on the threads of a bolt and screw it in it solidifies thus locking hte bolt in place

 

Wow how do people not no what locktite is?? Its stuff you put on the threads of bolts so they wont just come loose by themselves.

 

it's the opposite of anti-sieze

 

loctite is a kind of glue... it is heat activated... as you put a bolt in it generates heat... which activates the lock tite... as soon as you get it tightened down where you want it... it sticks hard as a rock...

 

partially true. It actually has a chemical reaction with the metal thats why when you use it on stainless steel you are supposed to use a special reactor from loctite to cure it quicker.

Basically it helps prevent bolts from vibrating loose, blue is the lightest grade and useual I say usualy can be braken without heat, red you will need heat if it fully cured and green is said to be "permanent"

anomolus is right take it home take one bolt out at a time clean the loctite off it then put it back in tight, it wont move


it is not heat activated, it cures when there is a lack of air between tight fitting metal surfaces, best when not stainless steel. oit creates a chemical reaction

 

Calm down there killer, it's just a question. I asked it 'cause I'm sure there's a bunch of other people who don't know what it is. We're not all you

 

do you know everything there is to know? unless you do, don't knock people that are trying to learn.