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Lumbricus


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Hello,

 

I have just installed the petrol tap/ petc0ck rebuild kit to find that the tap is now incredibly difficult to turn. I can just about move it with my fingers and it's easier with pliers.

Should I have used some sort of grease on the new rubber seal I installed? Or will it get a bit easier with use?

 

Thanks all,

 

Rob



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Don't turn it with pliers, you'll break it most likely

Instead dismantle it and check for any burs in the casting then clean and a small amount of grease

also check that it is assembled correctly

A little bit of grease goes a long way

just as an aside, I never turn mine off unless I'm working on it and removing the tank, never had a leak in 2 years

Hope that helps

 



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Thanks Steve. I'll take a look and see if the grease makes any difference. I had heard about not turning the tap off and might do that once I'm sure it's fixed.

Rob

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It's probably dried up. Strip it down as Steve suggests you can then check the seals are intact and have not "picked up" and become damaged etc.

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Sounds to me like you installed the O-ring wrong. It would not go hard or dry in that time. It is easy to do, happened to me the first time I tried and cut the O-ring. cry

I like to use rubber grease on all O-rings and rubber components and even my plastics if they start to fade, try it, for $8.00 (roughly) you can't go wrong! headbang.gifsmile

Jarrah

 



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I left the tap for about a week and when I returned to fix it, it was fine. I hadn't done anything but for some reason it now turns with minimal resistance, just like the old one.

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