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JC - Why do you state to not use a glove when using the black sauce?
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Because its not acidic like the person above said.
I experimented with about 30 sealants when I decided to look for something other than 1200. The reason I went away from the 1200 was I was only getting about a year out of it before water started seeping again. I was running a 4.1 stock block that was already 30 over so there wasnt much there to seal it, thus how I got looking for this sealant. When I want back to a 3.8, people were running single shims with high temp silver paint on them as a water sealant. I went to doubles with that sealant and it worked like a champ.
I tried all kinds of stuff and I was talking to a rep from GE and told him what I was doing with this stuff and he suggested the 4000 that I believe Jason includes with the kit now. I used some on a rear end cover one time and literally had to chisel it off.
I take a different approach to putting it on tho. I use my finger and put it on pretty thick, put a gasket down and put down another layer then the gasket, then another layer. Once the head is on, Ill torque it down in stages and once you get to your final torque values, wait about 30 minutes and then come back retorque it. Then before the rockers go on, Ill torque it one more time. I usually try to wait till overnight for this.
This sealant is fantastic on copper head gaskets too, if anyone uses those these days. I used them on my 4.1.
If youre wondering what this stuff was originally intended for, its what they use for glueing windows in skyscrapers.
You know whats kind of funny? Know how people found out what this sealant was? I used to sell it and went to painstaking lengths to make it unidentifiable. Id spray each tube down with paint remover and scrub all the writing off the tube. Unfortunately there was a bar code that couldnt be removed without damaging the tube. The paint remover wouldnt touch it. A guy in St Pete local to me when I lived in Florida took a tube and just started calling as many people as he could that made this kind of stuff until someone at GE gave him the part number. Once that happened, he posted it on here and that was that. Cat was out of the bag. The site has crashed since then but once information is out, you cant put it back in the bottle.
