If it makes any difference to anyone, I have been drilling and tapping the snouts on all my cranks and installing the balancer bolt since the middle 1980s. I have never used anything on the snout. No loctite or any other adhesive or locking chemical. A little lubrication. The bolt goes in dry, use the thick spacer and the lock washer. I rev my 235 and 261 motors up more than most I guess, some as high as 5800-6000 rpm. I have never ever ever had a bolt come loose. The factory bolts on the V8 motors do not use anything on the bolt either. Not saying it could not happen, but it has not happened to me. So I am not totally sold on the need for locktite on the snout or the bolt.
