I just installed my new Billman Gen X TCT tonight and discovered this red stuff on maintenance hole bolt:



Is this normal? It looks like some red crayon shavings or something.

Also I came across this other hole between the header and the actual TCT:





I noticed that there's no bolt here, just an open hole. Is this normal too? Looks clean as a whistle.

Thanks!

 

yikes that stuff could be some gasket maker or something!! I don't remember seeing that stuff when I did mines. That other hole is for when you take the engine out, you screw in the bolt from the engine hoist.

 

Thread lock

 

+1

Looks like the red high stregnth thread lock to me as well.

I think the other hole is always empty. I believe it is for engine removal IIRC.

 

That is red factory locktite and it's normal.

Threaded hole is the engine lift hole, it gets used as a supercharger mounting point as well.