Where do you like to use sealant, grease, antiseize, etc. on your Z  and what brand & product name?

 

I'll start:

Loctite "Thread Locker 242" aka Blue Loctite

1. Crank Bolt
2. Cam Sprocket Bolt
3. Cam blocking Plate (with alignment mark)
4. Flywheel Bolts
5. Pressure Plate Bolts
6. Oil pick-up bolts
7. PCV-tube-mesh plate screws

Edited April 3, 20187 yr by 240260280

Permatex Aviation Form-A-Gasket® No. 3 Sealant Liquid

 

1. Timing cover to block gasket
2. Thermostat housing to head gasket
3. Thermostat housing to cover gasket
4. Water pump gasket
5. Water inlet fitting to timing cover gasket
6. early 4 speed transmission body gaskets

 

Mercruiser Extreme Spline Grease

1. Transmission spline to clutch
2. Transmission spline to drive shaft
3. Throw-out bearing sliding surface

Edited March 15, 20188 yr by 240260280

Dry:

1. Rod Bearing back sides

2. Main bearing back sides

3. Pilot bushing back side

 

Permatex Anaerobic Flange Sealant:

 

1. Rear Main Cap base (back 25mm)
2. Rear Main Cap side seals (top 25mm)

Clevite Assembly Lube:

1. Rocker Pivot Tops
2. Rocker Arms (both contact surfaces and socket)
3. Valve Tip
4. Lash Pad (top, sides, and bottom)
5. Cam Lobes
6. Cam Rotating contact surfaces
7. Cam Tower Surfaces
8. Main Bearings (inside, and sides of thrust)
9. Crank Rotating contact surfaces (main and rod)
10. Rod Bearings (inside)

Motor Oil

1. Main bearing bolts
2. Crank rod bolts
3. Head bolts
4. Piston Side oil holes
5. Piston Pin
6. Pre-lube oil passages in block

Silver Spray Paint or Copper Gasket Spray

1. Head Gasket

What about timing components on a new build?

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Spend a little more for a good kit than those cheap ones on ebay. My 280 has a $60 one from ebay and I got one from a Z specific online for $100. The quality difference of the parts was daylight and dark. It was a True Line? or something like that. The ebay was Chinese and the other American made. Cheap one had rough edges on the tensioner body and all black links on the chain. You could compare them on amazon and look for the higher rating. Good luck in your search.

Good stuff.  I'm probably going with the ITM timing set on Rock Auto for &50.  looks like U.S./Japan and European sources.  I'm taking notes on this thread as its pertinent to my situation.  Well in the next few months at least.  I was curious as to what lube would be recommended for the timing set once installed.  If anything other than oil.