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Re: Tank Transmitter Seals

To: "A." "B." Bonds <ab@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>, mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Tank Transmitter Seals
From: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 96 19:40:26 GMT
Paul Hunt wrote:-
>What's wrong with the original type of rubber seal?  I've changed 
>tanks and transmitters at various times and had no problem.

A B Bonds wrote:- 
>Nothing.  Except that you can't get them any more.  The current 
>seals are composition cork, which tends to compress and lose its 
>seal without some kind of goober on it.

John Twist wrote:-

>MGA PETROL SENDING UNIT GASKETS:  The new and improved rubber
>gaskets are only new.  They expand and then leak.  Original cork 
>gaskets are to be soaked in oil, then fitted.  That's too slow for 
>the shop -- we use Permatex #2.  DO NOT USE SILICONE SEALANTS!!

Moss Europe wrote:-
>The Midget and MGB use the same sender unit sealing ring ARA1502
>but the MGA doesn't have a sealing ring ( or so I've been told).



PaulH
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