so many questions ... so overwhelming

I have had great success with "harvey's tfe paste. I've been using this on my vehicles and on the aircraft I've maintained over the last 15 years. It is for use on gas, liquid, steam and oils. It withstands gas pressures up to 3000 psi and temps from -50 to +400 degrees and liquid pressures up to 10,000 psi and temps from -50 to +500f. It does not set up hard and fittings are easily removed. This is for pipe threads and not flare fittings. You should be able to find it in any hardware store in the plumbing section. Dan
 
fuel line fitting threads?
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Let's be clear. The threads that mate to the component such as a fuel pump body or carburetor fuel bowl; use sealant sparingly as suggested by trevor. Clean-up is easy with denatured alcohol. For the fitting threads themselves, maybe just a drop of oil to lube them, but be careful not to over-tighten them as the sealing is in the flare itself.
 
That's correct greg, light oil on flare threads but not on the flare itself, at least on aircraft an flare fittings. I was talking about the pipe thread sealant into the unit, water/oil temp, vacuum port fittings on the manifold etc.
 
Great info, thanks everyone.

Another question. My fuel pump has a built-in filter in a glass bowl attached kind of next to it. As long as I am working on the fuel part of the engine, I would like to replace this filter too. It looks extremely dirty-gooey inside that glass bowl.

I've looked everywhere and cannot seem to find that filter, including our online store here. Does anyone know the part number of that paper filter? Parts stores computers show a similar fuel pump but with the glass bowl filter under the pump, but they can't find the filter listed separately or part number for the filter in the pump they sell.

And are all sv v8 fuel pumps and filters the same / interchangeable?

Thanks.

Steve
 
greg r said:
a napa p/n 3002 fuel filter should work for ya.
It looks like this:more information for fram cg7

They seem to work in any glass bowl fuel filter I have so far; I'm pretty confident it should work in yours.
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Thanks, that has helped tremendously. The current auto parts stores catalogs and their computers could not cough-up these part numbers.
But, to be technically correct, the napa 3002 and wix 33002 are plastic in-line filters that look like this:

napa auto parts

However the fram cg7 you mention crosses to a wix 33943 and looks like this:

part details

I can't find a napa part number for this filter, but I'm sure this wix 33943 is the one used in the fuel pump glass bowls.

Thanks.

Steve
 
technically correct, the napa 3002
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Ha! Yes I biffed that one fer sure. What I meant was this:
napa auto parts

I dug deeper in my receipts and discovered I put the wrong one in my parts list book I've been keeping for reference. That is the one I use for glass bowls.

I've been going through the 3002 inline filters like candy until the tanks "clear" up.
 
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