Well I am behind my planned schedule but maybe its better I didn't rush my project...since in some of the last few posts we got onto Phil Wood's factory bottom bracket installation instructions - please allow me to personalize my earlier BB question a bit as that is what I just installed on my bike and it is those very instructions that brought it about.

I've always done it before anyway, and considering they say to do it - I'm going to put a light grease coating on my tapers.

Now onto my next dilemma(s)...

Out of curiosity - is anybody here actually running a Phil's BB? Due to its few mm adjustabiliy -their cup/cartridge interface is different from all the other square taper BBs I have used before, so I have a couple questions...

1) I've never used thread lock when I intalled the cups in my previous bottom brackets. In fact, I greased the threads some and cranked them in. Even so, I had a helluva time breaking my old BB loose on this bike. Phil is telling me that it is a must to use their included blue thread lock but I don't want to - is anybody here with any Phil Woods bottom bracket experience going to tell me it will assplode, if I don't?

2) I don't own a torque wrench but that has never been a problem before since I am not a hamfist. Like I said earlier - this BB has a different cup/cartridge interface than I am used to so I am having trouble deciding whether to leave it a tiny bit looser to make it freer-spinning or tighten it a little more for "safety", which gives it some "sealed bearing resistance." Can I get any educated comments here on what to do about this?

Sorry for TL;DR and TIA for any help...