Nervous Newbie: Did I screw up sealing the case?
I used Loctite 574 a couple nights ago to seal up the case of my '77 930 engine, and think I might have made some "mistakes of inexperience" as Bruce Anderson says:
I laid a thin (1/8" or so) bead on both case halves, going all the way around the studs and holes, and spread it out using an acid brush so that the 574 covered the whole sealing surface.
Potential problem 1: when I torqued the perimeter nuts, a significant amount of Loctite squished out...so I'm thinking maybe there is too much between the sealing surfaces and that the case is not fitting together tightly enough.
Potential problem 2: as quickly as I tried to work, and with my neighbor helping, it still took us almost 30 minutes to get all the nuts and through bolts torqued.
I'm nervous that I may have done this job badly, and reading about Leland's rebuild and various threads on 574's quirks have me thinking - Should I pull it apart and try again? I know it's a hard question to answer, but I could use some opinions....
Thanks,
Colin
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