There are 21 bolts that hold the A/T pan. Dealers sells these bolts with some red compound on them, anyone know what this is? What can I use to subsitute for this?

 

Its thread sealer...you can use a low-strength loctite on it, such as loctite blue.

 

Well actually it's a thread locker and blue is medium strength but that's just me being a picky *****


but yes, I use loctite blue on transmission pans, oil pans, valve covers, diffs, etc

 

I didn't use anything on the bolts when I did my tranny service.
I used a new pan gasket and torqued them to spec.
Bone dry, over three years and counting.....

 

thread locker isn't used as a sealant, it's used as a retainer.

 

Ummm,,,,,, yes and my point IS that without any sort of thread lock on them, if they are torqued to spec, they don't back out.

 

That is not always the case. A few extra seconds installing the pan will save a potentially huge headache down the road.


I've serviced more than a few transmissions where the bolts have backed out enough to remove by hand or even allow the pan to leak.

I would rather take the extra precaution to make sure I don't have to repeat the job(or worse) before the next service interval.

 

I thought you didn't post outside of OT? Hmm...

Blow me....I got close enough.

 

I remembered that Matt93SE still has more posts than I do