I can tell silicone missuse stories until I am tired of telling them and you all are more than tired of hearing them. As for getting smarter by reading YT forums it seems that almost every leak question has RTV in at least one reply and retailers selll it as the leak cure and glob it on all in spite of label directions.
In 1974 I bought a blown up 1970 SS 396 Chevelle that had been recently rebuilt at a high school shop class and it remains the worst of RTV abuse I have ever run into. Too bad I didnt always have a camera in my pocket as I do now. Every joint on that engine had huge amounts of RTV on it, even the head gaskets. I guessed at the time 3 cauking gun tubes worth. Those of us with lots of years under our belts remember that back then RTV was VERY expensive. Globs under the valve covers extended to and inside of the valve springs which promptly chewed it up and sent it to tbe oil pan where it plugged the pick up screeen solid. The pick up hung on the wall of the shop for many years for a show and tell piece when ever somebody would say "I use plenty, it doesnt hurt anything"
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