[Superman]

Okay, I've admired by beautiful engine parts long enough. I want to drive my car, so it's time to attach the engine parts to each other, starting with rod bolts and nuts.

Porsche says to lube some fasteners. For example, they say to use Optimoly HT on head stud threads, even saying that motor oil is not good enough. Okay, JW was nice enough to throw me the last of his Optimoly, which is a kind of grease.

Wayne's book says to use loctite on rod nuts, though I do not recall seeing this in any Porsche publication. I am concerned that lubing fasteners that are supposed to be torqued dry will result in too much pressure on the fastener. I know we've been over this before (lets try to discuss this in less than 200 posts), but I need to make decisions about which fasteners to lube, which ones to not lube, and what lubes to use.

For example, what if I install a critical fastener, like rod bolts, without lube and the nut creaks and snaps? Obviously this would not be good, and I would be tempted to lube it just to get smooth tightening action. I can report that many fasteners creaked and snapped like crazy when being removed. For example, the main bearing through-bolts made snapping noises you could have heard from outside my garage, when I removed them.