Oil-based grease will quickly be dissolved by the petrol; jcmzhou's idea of lithium grease appears to work, but my choice would be to use silicon grease, available from Radio Shack for you guys, I should think. I smear a coat on every electrical connection that could be exposed to moisture too. I've also smeared uninsulated DC connections (a bilge pump) before now, where they've been sumberged in seawater, with no cathodic electrolytic corrosion or other ill effects!joeweir1 wrote:What kind of grease did you use. I smeared some grease on mine the first time around and it was smooth but ,it didn' last long for some reason.I also used the crush washers provided and gas leaked out around the screws so I put the originals back on and they did not keak. Maybe I did not crush the crush washers enough.I like to shut the petcock off to run the bowl low and the more I rode the harder it got.
PETCOCK REPAIR KITS
Re: petcocks
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Ah, you're in Oz; http://www.rs-components.com/full.html , click on Australia (sorry to be over-instructive), althought the entire rswww site is down for 'improvements' this weekend. The part nº is 494-124.
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N'worries mate! BTW: Sorry guys, the link didn't work because the comma at the end got appended to it. It's OK now!
Oh, and....errr....the link to the North American sites delivers you to Allied Electronics where the part nº is completely different (probably something that can be attributed to those quaint, old-fashioned inches, 110V or 60Hz; let's continue to sing from a different hymn sheet then.....)
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