Reply to "1600 engine dies"

Gordon NicholsMassachusetts 1993 CMC Supporting Member

Well, after a bunch of web surfing and spec reading, Jim is absolutely right - Don't use any Teflon-based product for sealing threads on fittings for gasoline. Teflon will slowly dissolve in a gasoline/petroleum environment.

Bathroom faucet, yes. Gasoline fittings, no.

Instead, use something like this (they have it at NAPA, too):

https://www.amazon.com/Permate...essing/dp/B007VIGCJW

2/11/203:39 PM

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