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As the title states I’m using a tap for the first time in my life. Better late than never eh?
If you check my last post on here I thought I had cross threaded a stud into the aluminum head on my 3800. After talking with my uncle who builds muddin trucks in his back yard he just thinks the threads are galled up since I was able to get 28 lb ft of torque on said stud.
I ordered all new studs and got a 5/16th X 18 spiral tap to chase the threads with.
My question regards whether or not to use fluid. A young guy at fastenal sold me heavy duty cutting fluid to use with the tap. They didn’t have anymore tap handles so I dropped by both oriellys and advance auto before I found one. The guy at AA said even if I were cutting new threads that you don’t use fluid on aluminum.
Can anyone verify this? Aluminium is so soft it makes sense but I want to be 110% sure.
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