Mopar was wrong for this...

[CreepyCrepe]

Red loctite? Really? Passenger side took an hour to remove. Luckily my driver side bolt must have been a Friday quitting time bolt because that one came out with little fuss. To anyone that must remove the body mount bolts:

1. Heat with MAP, try to focus as much as you can on the bolt head. Keep an eye on the isolator. If it starts to melt stop.
2. Go super slow, if it's binding at all, stop. Reverse half a turn then go back at it. I ended up doing the whole thing with a breaker bar to help keep up with rotation.
3. Watch your bolt deflection. If you're flexing the bolt a lot it's too much torque. A shallow well socket is best unless your deep well has full length flutes
4. Go slow! Seriously, an hour to get the passenger side, but that beats trying to extract a red loctited broken bolt from the body.
   

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[kah.mun.rah]

Yes, using red loctite on a bolt that holds the body to the frame is just plain silly...

 

[TheBirdie72]

So “red” loctite is like a more powerful kryptonite than the standard green kryptonite? ?

 

[CarbonSteel]

Been discussed a number of times back when I first joined and everyone was installing sliders en masse. I would also toss the bolts and replace them with new ones and use orange Loctite on them which has the holding strength of red, but can be easily removed like blue.

 

[CreepyCrepe]

Yes, using red loctite on a bolt that holds the body to the frame is just plain silly...

Then why not use it on all 6? Only the front two had red.

 

[CreepyCrepe]

Been discussed a number of times back when I first joined and everyone was installing sliders en masse. I would also toss the bolts and replace them with new ones and use orange Loctite on them which has the holding strength of red, but can be easily removed like blue.

I replaced them, applied blue which I had on hand, and torqued to 92 lb/ft.

 

[CreepyCrepe]

So “red” loctite is like a more powerful kryptonite than the standard green kryptonite? ?

According to Superman lore, that holds up. ?

 

[Robertyoke]

You need one of these bad boyz

 

[Deleted member 59498]

I will take the red, but thanks.

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