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It's threadlocker. You need to clean the threads and use BLUE loctite and torque to spec.
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That residue should be blue loctite. What I was taught a long time back was that if you never plan on taking it off again or if it fell off bad crap would happen--then use red loctite. If you want it to stay till you need it off sometime soon --blue loctite. If you may want it off in the future but the torque specs are real high--anti-seize. The last tidbit is that if it is a plug holding back fluids--use a non hardening thread sealer [loctite makes one]and never over torque.
when you buy bolts (such as in a kit) from the dealer, the goop on the threads is white. probably sompe proprietary super secret formula that they use. or more likely, since it comes from china, their counterfeit version.