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None! If you want fast you want The Right Stuff!!! It is not cheap or easy to use the can can be diffacult. It is the best stuff though. 5 minutes after you have put it in place you start refilling with liquids and it does not react and cause foaming in transmissions. This was an issue when MOPAR went to a new fluid with the 45RFE in 2001. It was what the factor used to seal the pan.
You can torgue it spec right away no wait time. The down side is it drys fast so your work time is also short compared to traditional RTV or Toyota Anerobic Gasket Maker or Honda Bond. I like to get it in the caulking gun tube.
If your budget can not handle The Right Stuff or you only have Permatex to chose from I like the Ultra Gray I think it is called or High Torgue Gray I have used it a lot for valve covers, timming covers and oil pans but my hands are not what they used to be. I only get about 4 hours out of my muscle before I see a sharp decline in fine motor skills and suffer terrible pain and spasms past that. When I have to work hard on a car for 8+ hours I pay for it dearly in pain and spasms. Usually by the time I am ready for RTV Ihave been at it 8+ hours and my hands are gone and squeezing those Permatex RTV tubes is controlling my fine motor skill so it does not look like a toddler did it is diffacult.
If I was working as a professional with my hands their are other brands I like as well but you have to order them by the case or gross and they only come in huge calking gun sizes meant for shops working on HUGE diesels you would see in mining or ocen going ships. I learned about those from a famious race engine builder partialy retired who is also famious in the vintage world for rebuilding really old engines like old Rolls Royce, Duesenburgs, racing flat head Ford V8's etc.....The sort of shop that if they can not buy a part they custom make it in house! I do not have his permission though so will not mention him by name.
You can torgue it spec right away no wait time. The down side is it drys fast so your work time is also short compared to traditional RTV or Toyota Anerobic Gasket Maker or Honda Bond. I like to get it in the caulking gun tube.
If your budget can not handle The Right Stuff or you only have Permatex to chose from I like the Ultra Gray I think it is called or High Torgue Gray I have used it a lot for valve covers, timming covers and oil pans but my hands are not what they used to be. I only get about 4 hours out of my muscle before I see a sharp decline in fine motor skills and suffer terrible pain and spasms past that. When I have to work hard on a car for 8+ hours I pay for it dearly in pain and spasms. Usually by the time I am ready for RTV Ihave been at it 8+ hours and my hands are gone and squeezing those Permatex RTV tubes is controlling my fine motor skill so it does not look like a toddler did it is diffacult.
If I was working as a professional with my hands their are other brands I like as well but you have to order them by the case or gross and they only come in huge calking gun sizes meant for shops working on HUGE diesels you would see in mining or ocen going ships. I learned about those from a famious race engine builder partialy retired who is also famious in the vintage world for rebuilding really old engines like old Rolls Royce, Duesenburgs, racing flat head Ford V8's etc.....The sort of shop that if they can not buy a part they custom make it in house! I do not have his permission though so will not mention him by name.
