Locktite turns to a powder at 400 degrees. I've had parts here at work that
you could not press apart with an arbor press. Put then in an oven at 450
degrees, in half an hour you could slide them apart with your fingers.
Good luck, Mike Singer
At 02:42 PM 6/20/2006 +1200, you wrote:
> Hi everyone, I have a front disc brake conversion kit here from
>AAJ Brakes, everything looks really nice. The only questionable thing, to
>me, is using RED LOCTITE in between the adapter and spindle. As far as I
>know, once this adapter has red loctite on it, it will become a permanent
>part of the spindle. So if you were to go back to drums or whatever
>(probably not likely but it’s nice to have that option) your spindles
>are affectively useless…..unless you use heat to remove which is not
>recommended on steering components. There isn’t a lot of spare
>spindles….down here anyway. Would it be better to use a sleeve
>locking compound or similar which could be removed, with difficulty, if
>needed. Rather than using the permanent red thread loctite? Anyone been
>through this? Thanks Owen
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