Antisieze

They changed the can to plastic?

When I first get Jeep projects, the lug nuts are a crap shoot to get the nuts off without twisting off a stud. I've used antiseize on all and always will. Some rigs were bad enough it was a must to get the nuts back on. 

Joe Friday wrote: They had to. Certain Millenials couldn't get the cap off. Something about needing to add something to the label about applying antiseize sparingly around the cap? My guess was they never heard about righty tighty lefty loosy?

Oldpappy wrote: Joe Friday wrote: They had to. Certain Millenials couldn't get the cap off. Something about needing to add something to the label about applying antiseize sparingly around the cap? My guess was they never heard about righty tighty lefty loosy? Joe, I about fell out of my chair I laughed so hard when I read that. It does seem that certain Millenials need help with a lot of things.  Warning labels all over everything, a multitude of complex and bothersome safety devices.  I know better than to pour gasoline on a hot running engine, and I know how to keep from overflowing the gas tank on my tractor. I had to go to an antique store to find a gas can that doesn't have a some kind of safety device on the spout to keep me from pouring gasoline on an open flame.   For a while I wondered why they made my push mower shut off any time I let go of the handle, and fixed it so I had to stand behind the mower with one hand clamping down a lever, and the other pulling a rope. I wondered why I could no longer adjust the speed of the mower. I wondered why they thought it important to paste warnings all over it telling me not to put my feet or hands underneath.  Then I read about some idiot successfully suing a manufacturer when he got hurt while trying to cut his hedge with a push mower held in his arms. I guess he never heard about hedge clippers.  I am not sure these warnings and devices are for my protection.

I'm going to do my best to reduce my negative comments regarding Millennials, even though I was careful to say "certain" Millennials.

Edited by Joe Friday - 08 Feb. 2021 at 11:58pm

Joe Friday said:

"I'm going to do my best to reduce my negative comments regarding Millennials, even though I was careful to say "certain" Millennials.

I was approached by a young man yesterday that saw me working on the Jeep, and he came over to ask me for advice on replacing a rocker Arm on his wife's minivan.
I explained that I was not a mechanic, but I had a few tools with me.

Long story short, we pulled the valve covers off the 3.6 liter VVT V6, after being stalled by discussions about the mistakes in the manuals with small details like 'remove cam sensors before prying the heck out of the cover and cracking them'. The first few times I asked him to take a second look for hidden bolts and clips, he tried to rush ahead. After a sigh of relief that we were able to get it apart without breaking anything expensive, THEN he told me the dealer charged him $4000 to replace al 4 Cams and rockers 20,000 miles ago. After not finding anything wrong with the forward bank, we moved on to the rear bank. I saw a minor amount of metal 'powder' next to one lobe. The rocker on the left was the bad one.

We got it all zipped up, changed the oil, tested it, and the noise was gone.

He really was not chatty, seemed to accept my differing viewpoint, but clearly needed help.
Up till this point, I'd met very few Millennials that wanted to listen or learn.

That's when I learned he was not just any Millennial. He was a Sailor on leave from the Destroyer he was serving on. He was very polite and business like because he needed his wife's van fixed before he shipped out again.

So maybe too many times the term "Millennials" is used in a derogatory manner. I met at least one decent one this week.

His wife made us a nice dinner as a bonus."


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Even Millennials serve. A certain percent would have to because the defense of our nation is a young man's game and someone will have to do it. It has always fallen to the young to fight our battles. Anyone older than 30 was thought of as an old man back in the day and I'm sure it is the same today. I wonder what the kids in my brother's National Guard Military Police company thought of him at 56 when the company deployed to Iraq a few years ago?

I look at old photographs of me and my buddies during the time we served in Vietnam and I honestly don't remember us looking that young. All of us were 18-20 years old at the time. How time flys when you are having fun...it doesn't seem that long ago, yet in other ways it was a lifetime ago. Looking at my Army unit's reunion pictures I wonder who all those old farts are...that couldn't be us! The truth be known, some of us aren't in very good shape anymore...most of us will be gone in 10 years...

Proud to have served...

Nothing wrong with the young folks of today that a little experience would help them along the path of life.

Didn't mean to highjack anyone's thread...

Edited by Ron D - 09 Feb. 2021 at 1:33am

https://www.permatex.com/faqwd/permatex-suggest-applying-anti-seize-lubricate-lug-nuts-installing-tightening-nuts/

Oldpappy wrote: Whatever state you are in, if you eat enough of anything it may give you cancer, and though I have never been to California, but it is a big state with lots of people. Perhaps they have a problem with folks eating things they should not eat, so need a lot of instructions and warnings labels on everything. Just saying.....  A tube of Permatex could be confused with toothpaste. Why my first wife once started brushing her teeth with Preparation H one morning, and her mother, who never learned to read, once walked into the kitchen complaining "This new hairspray I bought smells real good but it don't hold worth a darn". It was Lysol. So, some folks do need big bright warning labels, some don't, and some folks wouldn't benefit from them anyway. $4,000 for changing a set of rocker arms??? I am in the wrong line of work.