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Re: Banjo connectors onto float chambers

To: H4aardvrk@aol.com
Subject: Re: Banjo connectors onto float chambers
From: Art Pfenninger <ch155@freenet.buffalo.edu>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 06:45:22 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998 H4aardvrk@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 11/23/98 10:59:26 AM Mountain Standard Time,
> simon_matthews@avanticorp.com writes:
> 
> << fter removing the banjo connectors for the fuel inlet, I found that they
>  had to be tighetened inordinately tight to stop leakage. Is this normal, or
>  is there a problem with the seals (which were quite hard)?  >>
> Simon,
>      The fuel banjo "seals" are actually copper washers,made to
> application...replace them..they are probably gouged and ruined..they also
> work harden and become bothersome as well.
>                           Yours, H4(Howard)
> 1974MG-Bgt
> 1974MG-B roadster
> 1976MG_b roadster
> 1977 MG-B roadster
> 
If you heat the washers cherry red with a propane torch and then let them
cool they will work just fine.
...Art


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