Please, if you are going to reseal a pump...

[burn_your_money]

...don't use silicon 

[NintendoKD]

I bet that that was fun to take apart

[Vincent Waldon]

Yeah, I have one where the PO tried to reseal the o-ring on the high-pressure end with orange silicone... then snapped the piston in half on reassembly.

Silicone makes such a mess when bits of it get into everything.

[maxfax]

THey ought to require an instruction course to purchase that stuff..   Brainwash people that more is not better, never use it on a fuel system or anything else intricate like an auto trans.. 

I wish I woulda snapped pics of the trans I just took apart..  Looked much like that pump..  I think I fished a whole tube of orange goo outta the valve body.. 

[Kudagra]

Maybe they just shouldnt sell it. I hate it.

Ive been thinking of making gaskets for the Case halfs for my aircooled motors..just because I hate the stuff so much.

Either that or they need to require a 8hr course on how to do it..then get a card like they require people to do when buying a handgun in California.

Since misused sillly-cone has probably killed more things then legally purchased firearms in that state.

[rabbitman]

Wow.....whoever did that sure knew how to smear it on there did it fix the leak?

[maxfax]

Either that or they need to require a 8hr course on how to do it..then get a card like they require people to do when buying a handgun in California.

Bingo!!!   The stuff does have it's place..  THose pesky corners of the intake on a V engine, old tractor drive lines that are impossible to find gaskets for and to make one would take 6 rolls of gasket material, that pesky exhaust manifold that was beyond repair 30 years ago and just won't seal.. Heck there are quite a few engines out there that never had anything else but the stuff, and a gasket will be too think and throw things off..   The whole key is to use it in the right place, and a little goes a long way!

[catlin_cava]

iève used some to repair an exhaust leak and it held so good, it blew out the muffler....