Bert's Custom Tackle

[ebijack]

If you use grade 8 bolts and thread them into aluminum, I think you'll need to use anti-seize on them or they'll corrode with the aluminum and never come out. I'm not sure regular oil would keep that from happening.

If you could get your hands on the illegal anti-seize with the ground glass in it, then yes. Other than that, I've never experienced anti-seize stopping metal from rusting. No where hear as good as oil as the oil will actually absorb a very tiny amount into the metal. The aluminum doesn't like touching any ferrous metal. And reacts to it. But that is my experience.

[Jawbreaker]

If you could get your hands on the illegal anti-seize with the ground glass in it, then yes. Other than that, I've never experienced anti-seize stopping metal from rusting. No where hear as good as oil as the oil will actually absorb a very tiny amount into the metal. The aluminum doesn't like touching any ferrous metal. And reacts to it. But that is my experience.

You may be right, about it not stopping rust, but I would think the oil would be too thin to stay on the threads between the two metals when tightened, which would allow them to react and corrode. The anti seize I've always used anytime I have aluminum against steel, such as spark plugs in aluminum heads and lug nuts on aluminum rims, is almost impossible to wipe off without some kind of solvent. I'm no expert and this is just my uneducated opinion. So take it for what it's worth.

[ebijack]

Do not use anti-seize on spark plugs, when they get hot, some of the lubricants can and do run down onto the electrodes and will foul out plugs to were they will not fire any more. I know this from my 12 + yrs doing engine development on dyno's.
I think if you try engine oil ( used works also) on your wheel studs, you will find those will not rust and strip threads like what can happen with the anti-seize when high temps are reached. I've been using oil for 30 + yrs. Hasn't failed me yet. Where I have had problems with anti-seize. Again, that is my experience.