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Put anti seize on my brake caliper bolts and now I can't stop thinking about it
Honestly I always did the whole clean and dry thing on caliper bolts because that's what the AMM said and that's what my old shop lead drilled into me. Tbh last Thursday I was doing a brake job on a King Air 200 out at a hangar in Wichita and the bolts were absolutely seized from corrosion, took me way longer than it should have to break them loose. So I figured what the heck, threw a light coat of anti seize on the shanks before I torqued them to spec. Ngl the next day I go to do the post install check and the bolts spin off by hand like butter, which was great until my coworker saw it and told me I was asking for a bolt to back out in service. I've been reading up on it since and there's like 40 different opinions on whether wet torquing changes the clamp load enough to matter. Part of me thinks on a hot brake stack the anti seize might even cook off and leave the threads dry anyway. Curious what you all do on caliper hardware, are you lubing the shanks and adjusting torque or keeping everything dry?
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