I would think it would make sense to locktite the spacers on... Suggestions? Blue or Red? Also, I am in the Northeast and see some nasty weather variations...given the hard anodizing of the Sidertrax spacers is there any reason for or against using anti-seize between the spacer and wheel hub to avoid the spacer seizing to the hub?

 

I used the res loctite that came with them, they have never budged.

As for the antisieze, i honestly never thought about it. I havent noticed any signs of corrosion.

 

Have you ever tired to remove them? Assuming you can pre-heat and then break the loctite, I've seen spacers seize to the hub and be near impossible to remove..

 

Yes, i had the front ones off, i had no difficulties removing them, and as I mentioned, didnt notice any corrosion at all (that was after 2 Western NY snow/salt belt winters). Might not be a bad idea to give the flat spot a quick coat next time i have them off though. I certainly dont see where it would hurt anything.

 

I have the Teraflex steel spacers and used blue locktite on mine. Too many stories about how threads are ruined with the red for me. Plus, I've seen it happen a good bit. If they are installed correctly, the blue will be sufficient. Having said that, I would still recommend following Spidertrax's deestruckshuns. Whatever they say to use....use it. Oh, and if you wanna use something between the hub and spacer, I would recommend red high temp permatex. Totally not necessary, but not a terrible idea.

 

Use the red Loc-tite, usually a little tube comes with the spacers. I took my spacers off my 2007 2-dr and put them on my 2008 with no problems. I just cleaned the threads off and put on some new Loc-tite.

 

Used the red loctite and it's been great so far.

 

Keep in mind there are diff. grades of red loctite. The red loctite that Spidertrax supplies does not require heat .

Use the Red loctite that the MFG provides.

David

 

Yep, good advice. I did the same on mine.

 

Use it.
Short and sweet.