Treatment for frame-mounted slider bolts

I've seen two opposing recommendations to prep bolts for use on frame-mounted sliders.

1. Blue loctite
2. Anti-seize

I'm in the rust belt, so my inclination is to go for anti-seize and re-torque now and then. Which would you do in this scenario and why?

 

I'd go anti seize. Never retorqued any of my slider bolts as they don't seem to back out.

If I was worried about that I suppose I could do locking washers + anti seize

 

Mine have anti-seize...

 

No need for loctite. Rust will handle that for you in a little bit.

 

Watching this thread ahead of bolt on sliders, install first week of July!
I don’t have an answer yet

 

I put anti-seize on mine. Keep in mind, with anti-seize, your torque numbers will be off. While I doubt it matters much at the torque values for sliders, you'll set the torque wrench for LESS than the recommended torque value. About 25% if I remember correctly.

 

Yes, 25% reduction seems to be the consensus.

 

3. Cosmoline, because it displaces water and offers better corrosion protection than anti-seize.

 

Would Fluid Film be reasonably equivalent?

 

Interested in that.

I used fluid film on the frame where the sliders bolt too. A ton of it... also got in the threaded holes I'm sure.

It's been a couple years and I haven't removed my sliders.

It'd be smart to drop all the skids and sliders. Clean everything. Repaint skids. Fluid film and reinstall armor...
Need to find time for that

 

No. Fluid Film attracts sand & dust, so it'll turn into grimy dirt between the frame and sliders. I used FF for one year on my Tacoma (trail rig) and regretted it, been using cosmoline exclusively on the truck since.

 

Are you using on outside of frame as well as inside? Thx

 

FF definitely does that. But I imagine it makes a decent anti seize in pinch? I could be wrong.

My only experience with cosmoline is cleaning old surplus rifles. The smell is horrible...

Is modern cosmoline less pungent and available in spray form?

Biggest pluses to FF is cost and availability. Fluid filming every 6 months to a year helps a lot. But it definitely grabs dirt and makes working under your truck a mess...

 

^Yes FF is a decent anti-seize. Spray around the hub register so brake rotors and wheels don't seize to it. I use FF on my 4Runner frame, the 4Runner being a highway crawler. Tacoma gets cosmoline because it goes off road. I prefer the petroleum smell of cosmoline over the fishy smell of FF.

Cosmoline RP-342 is available in a rattlecan: https://www.cosmolinedirect.com/cosmoline-rp-342-heavy-spray-military-grade-rust-preventive/

CRC Marine P/N 06026 (US) 76026 (Canuckistan) is very similar. I've used RP-342 and CRC Marine interchangeably over the years. The CRC spray nozzle has a nice wide pattern but can't accept a straw. I kept a FF nozzle with straw for crevices.
https://www.napaonline.com/en/p/CRC06026
https://www.tenaquip.com/product/crc-canada-heavy-duty-corrosion-inhibitor-aerosol-can-76026-uae411

On my Tacoma yes. One application of cosmoline is good for a few years (you'd touch up trail scars before each winter). If you DIY, wear a mask and cap (like shower cap) as cosmoline from rattlecan is very volatile and has a lot of outgassing when sprayed.

 

I used anti seize per the directions Greenlane

 

Went in dry on mine. Hope I don't regret it.