Bill
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I think quite a few of the different products are different in packaging only and the real reason for having the same formulation in tubes with different labeling has more to do with marketing. Black or blue RTV will work just find as a gasket maker on your oil pan. But, adding some catch phrase on the packaging that this one is for oil pans is likely to convince some people that it's going to work better than the other ones. It also works for branding purposes. By increasing the size of the product lineup they also increase the amount of shelf space taken up, and taken away from other products.I feel that. They are are for very specific instances.
I use Red High temp on pretty much everything. I have a couple of tubes of Ultra Black, for oil contact areas. I use them interchangeably.
If you squirt a bit of RTV into the cap before you screw it on the RVT seals the cap to the tube and your tube in not all dried up next time you go for it. Ever since someone told me that I have been using the same couple tubes of RTV for years. Instead of buying a new tube every other time I needed it.