Originally Posted by Toyman991
This time, I really got on it when I put the BB back in - so far, so good with a couple hundred miles on it now . I considered using Loctite 242 on it but read conflicting advice here so I put the BB back in dry.Hopefully, it'll stay in this time. John
You don't want to assemble the bottom bracket really dry as corrosion could (will) make it difficult to impossible to remove when you want to. Either use grease or a couple of wraps of the very thin teflon tape plumber's use on pipe threads to wrap the cups before you install them. The secret is to torque them in
hard. Campy recommends 612 inch-pounds for it's bottom brackets which is a VERY high torque, much more than you'd use without guidence from a torque wrench. Loctite 242 is fine for installing bottom brackets but should be unnecessary.