[SEL] Fuel Pump Seat Leaking

Paul Maples paulmaples at sbcglobal.net
Fri Apr 13 08:05:03 PDT 2007


Thanks Peter, this sounds like a super way of doing it.

Paul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Lowe" <plowe at exemail.com.au>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Fuel Pump Seat Leaking


> Hi Paul
> I have a number of wooden dowels that have various stainless steel balls
> glued to the ends of them. I find one that is the diameter of the ball on
> the job and use very fine grinding paste and oil, then go as fine as 
> Brasso
> polishing liquid (do you guys have that over there?) I just rotate the 
> dowel
> as you would grinding normal engine valves, lifting and dropping as you
> rotate. Works a treat for me.
> I think most balls are common sizes eg. 5/32", 3/16", 1/4", 5/16" etc
>
> Peter, Oz
>





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