[Formulas]

you can use a vacum instead of compressed air to dry out your stud holes after spray cleaning

and there is an ARP product to use on wet studs similar to teflon pipe dope a thick paste cleaning isnt as much of a problem and theres no set up or curing its what my E'heads came with

[Schurkey]

Originally Posted by Formulas

and there is an ARP product to use on wet studs similar to teflon pipe dope a thick paste cleaning isnt as much of a problem and theres no set up or curing its what my E'heads came with

Best I can tell, the ARP sealer is Locktite 592 in a custom-printed tube and raised price. I've never bought the ARP stuff, so I don't know that it's got the distinctive odor of the Loctite/Permatex sealers.

If I'm right, It absolutely does cure, the whole point of the high-quality sealers is that they're anaerobic--they harden like a threadlocker in the absence of oxygen and the presence of "active" metal (Iron, steel, brass, but NOT aluminum.) Thus the recommendation for an activator chemical when used on aluminum heads. The studs are steel, but it'd be nice to speed-up the cure with an activator.