2stupid2fixit
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Some might remember that my first posts in these forums about a year ago were all about finding help for my pitless. My user avatar is and has always been an actual photo of the drop pipe side of my pitless with leaky gasket. Today I learned some things.
I yanked the pitless to try a round normal looking black o-ring. I have had pitless leak since last year but its warm out and I had time to work on it. I Selected a o-ring from a kit that was just a little difficult to get into the track. I Jammed it in there real nice, used some danco grade silicone lube... To me mechanically, mechanically it looked like a go.
Leaked worse than failed OEM gasket.
Look closely at the pitless gasket that appears in my avatar. It's completely gone... or is it? I dug it out intact (the OEM one) and it appears that it is made of leather.
Well cap says Campbell and google tells me Campbell pitless used leather gaskets.
Where do I get one of these? The supply houses around me are staffed by kids that turn around and describe the part I am looking for to Google. I wish I made that last part up but it's true.
The outer diameter of this is 48 mm.
The inner diameter of it is 34mm.
The face of the gasket is 7mm.
The gasket is about 4mm tall but I imagine it should be at least 50% greater to make a good seal.
I had to use metric measurements because I am too stupid to figure out 8ths and 16ths and so forth. Is it 58ths? 7 8ths? 3 16ths? F that. 10 millimeters is two 5 millimeter spans. No confusion.
I yanked the pitless to try a round normal looking black o-ring. I have had pitless leak since last year but its warm out and I had time to work on it. I Selected a o-ring from a kit that was just a little difficult to get into the track. I Jammed it in there real nice, used some danco grade silicone lube... To me mechanically, mechanically it looked like a go.
Leaked worse than failed OEM gasket.
Look closely at the pitless gasket that appears in my avatar. It's completely gone... or is it? I dug it out intact (the OEM one) and it appears that it is made of leather.
Well cap says Campbell and google tells me Campbell pitless used leather gaskets.
Where do I get one of these? The supply houses around me are staffed by kids that turn around and describe the part I am looking for to Google. I wish I made that last part up but it's true.
The outer diameter of this is 48 mm.
The inner diameter of it is 34mm.
The face of the gasket is 7mm.
The gasket is about 4mm tall but I imagine it should be at least 50% greater to make a good seal.
I had to use metric measurements because I am too stupid to figure out 8ths and 16ths and so forth. Is it 58ths? 7 8ths? 3 16ths? F that. 10 millimeters is two 5 millimeter spans. No confusion.
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