Try a couple layers of teflon tape around the threads and see if that
solves the problem.
Joe Curry
msecres@ibm.net wrote:
>
> I couldn't leave well enough alone, so I decided to fit a new fuel pump
> on my GT6 before the original gave up the ghost. Now I have a little
> problem with said new pump.
>
> While Boy Wonder was fitting the output fuel pipe, it seems that he
> cross-threaded it a little. The result is that I cannot tighten down
> the pipe bulb into its seat sufficiently to stop it from leaking.
> Looking inside the threads on the pump, it's hard to see any damage
> (ditto the male pipe nut), but I can't seem to get the fuel line fitting
> to thread in correctly. Does anyone have any little trick I never heard
> of (besides buying a new fuel pump) for fixing this?
>
> --
> Martin Secrest
> 73 GT6
> 74 Spitfire
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