fuel bowl gasket

[ihmike2003]

Does anyone have way to keep fuel bowl from leaking? Those cheap replacement gaskets made from cork only last a year if i am lucky. Original gasket on it was rubber, but it cracked after many years. I was thinking of mayby finding a fat oring, mayby that would work. Or mayby someone knows where to get a decent gasket.

 

[Dunk]

(quoted from post at 18:41:07 08/01/09) Does anyone have way to keep fuel bowl from leaking? Those cheap replacement gaskets made from cork only last a year if i am lucky. Original gasket on it was rubber, but it cracked after many years. I was thinking of mayby finding a fat oring, mayby that would work. Or mayby someone knows where to get a decent gasket.

NAPA used to have a great o-ring, part nimber 730-9506.

Now that part number is a flat rubber gasket.

Myself, I keep quite a few cork ones on hand.

You can order them from here for $0.48 each.

http://ford8n.com/f8shop/index.cgi?ID=WK4LKU&task=show&cat=Fuel+System&pgidx=14


Oh, yeah, I ment to tell ya that NAPA part number is about $4 - $5.

 

[Bruce (VA)]

Turn the knob off fully, remove the bowl & carefully check the groove in the top of the assembly for dirt/crud/old gasket material. Most leaks on a new gasket are caused by having it seated incorrectly or because some of the old gasket was left in the groove. Or, some misguided soul may have gunked it all up w/ gasket pucky. Don’t forget to check the bowl rim for chips; if it’s chipped, you will never get it to stop leaking. Clean or replace the screen. You can get both the cork gasket & the screen from TSC; p/n 0237144. A cork gasket will work if you soak it first in gas, but I like rubber. Check out tip # 10 at the link below for the correct NAPA part number. However, the newer ones aren't as thick as the old ones and the price is now $4 each. I’ve got the new ones to work, but it takes a few tries. And, at $4 for a thinner gasket, I’m not planning on using the NAPA gaskets anymore.

Put the bowl back on & hand tighten the thumb screw. Turn the gas on & look at the bowl. If it starts to fill the bowl, turn the gas off & start over; it has a leak. You will know it's sealed when gas does not flow into the bowl w/ the engine off. It won't fill with the bowl securely on because the float has closed the needle valve in the carb and there is nowhere for the air in the bowl to escape. (assuming the carb bowl is full) When the engine is started the needle valve will open and the trapped air will escape through the carb vent. If you loosen the bowl, it will fill.....and leak.

All of the above assumes you have an OEM sediment bowl. If not, I'd get one because a lot of the off-shore replacements never work right & the gaskets are odd-sized.
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[MG-8n]

I just had to cut my own out of a flat piece of rubber sheet, works great

 

[Colin King]

That's dissapointing to hear about the new NAPA gaskets. Luckily, I have 6 in my stash, and am still on the gasket that came with the tractor in '06 that is of undetermined age.

BTW, how's the garden? Terrible year here. We've had an arctic air mass stuck over the state since May. This morning is was 59 degrees. The okra have yet to come out of their row tunnels. I'm not sure they'll produce much by the time the snow flies at the end of the month

Colin, MN

 

[Dean]

Mike:

I have little success with the neoprene gaskets but have found the cork ones to work flawlessly.

The surfaces must be clean, the screen and bowl must be properly positioned, and the tightening mechanism must be clean, properly functioning and properly tightened.

Dean

 

[Kenster]

Put the bowl back on & hand tighten the thumb screw. Turn the gas on & look at the bowl. If it starts to fill the bowl, turn the gas off & start over; it has a leak. You will know it's sealed when gas does not flow into the bowl w/ the engine off. It won't fill with the bowl securely on because the float has closed the needle valve in the carb and there is nowhere for the air in the bowl to escape. (assuming the carb bowl is full) When the engine is started the needle valve will open and the trapped air will escape through the carb vent. If you loosen the bowl, it will fill.....and leak.

Bruce, this is something new to me. I do not have a leak at the bowl, but there is always gas in the bowl if the valve is open. I have noticed that if I really tighten the nut, no fuel enters the bowl but I thought there was suppose to be fuel in the bowl, so I back off the nut a wee bit til the bowl fills, but not so much that it leaks.
I always shut off the valve when I shut down but never continue to run the tractor until it starves from lack of fuel.
What am I doing wrong?

 

[Dunk]

(quoted from post at 20:20:56 08/01/09) That's dissapointing to hear about the new NAPA gaskets. Luckily, I have 6 in my stash, and am still on the gasket that came with the tractor in '06 that is of undetermined age.

BTW, how's the garden? Terrible year here. We've had an arctic air mass stuck over the state since May. This morning is was 59 degrees. The okra have yet to come out of their row tunnels. I'm not sure they'll produce much by the time the snow flies at the end of the month

Colin, MN

I need to git a few pics, but I am a little embarrased at the weeds.

Most of our garden is way late, except for the damaters, and we have been giving the extras to one of the local nursing homes, and friends, plenty of damaters.

The okra should be happening soon, I can't wait for a plate of boiled okra.

The squash should be happening soon too.

I have had some awesome cream corn, and there should be quite a bit more, soon.

 

[Bruce (VA)]

All things considered, I'd say this has been about the best garden year so far that I've seen in easily 6 years. The tomatoes are fantastic. I picked 150 lbs off of 120 plants on July 17, 100 lbs July 24 & 75 lbs this past Friday for the market. I didn't keep track of the yield on the 3rd or 10th of July, but I'd guess 100 lbs total. Corn is yielding nicely, as is squash & bell peppers. If I'd watched the cukes better, they would still be doing ok but the beetles got in them. My first planting of okra didn't germinate, so the late crop just produced enough to sell at the market today.

My cousin lives between our house & the market & what doesn't sell, she gets to can. My daughter put up about 20 quarts of tomatoes as well. We've put up all the tomatoes & corn we need.

My late snaps & the blackeyed peas are doing great. I'll start collard plants in flats next week; I'm late. They need to be set out the third week of August. Or, as my aunt would say "on a going moon in August".

I still get a kick out of a guy in MN growing okra! Do you plant blackeyes?

W/ all that cool weather, your cabbage & peas must have done well. My cabbage did fine, English peas were ok, but a early heat wave sent the cauliflower right to seed.

 

[Bruce (VA)]

At the farmers market, the okra serves as a cultural dividing line. I'm not aware of a single non-southerner who buys it. But, for those that do, the line is clearly drawn between boiled & fried. You all from GA, SC, & MS are the real boiled okra fans. Boiled w/ stewed tomatoes, just plain boiled or boiled w/ rice & beans. I think it's the VA & NC natives that are the fried okra fans. It's probably like the difference between eastern NC BBQ and western NC BBQ. One simply eats but one variety. No compromise!

 

[Bruce (VA)]

Nothing wrong. You just have a good gasket! And, I guess after you let it fill, you tighten it back up, right?

If the carb bowl is full of gas & you remove & re-install the sediment bowl & securely tighten the knob on the bottom so that no air gets in the bowl, gas will not fill it. It does not need to. But, when you start the tractor, the float drops & gas flows into the sediment bowl.

 

[R.G..M.]

why not an inline filter

 

[Bruce (VA)]

Because you need the shut-off valve on the sediment bowl. And, a 50 cent gasket properly applied will be a lot easier to fool w/ than cutting the fuel line & installing an in-line filter that could easily restrict fuel flow.
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[Kenster]

I'm a 5th generation Texan and I say Fried is the only way to go. Fried okra used to be part of my mom's Supper of Bounty.

Fried Okra, Fried Squash, Fried potatoes, fresh sliced tomatoes, cantaloupe, corn on the cob, green beans.

 

[Dunk]

(quoted from post at 22:07:08 08/01/09)
I'm a 5th generation Texan and I say Fried is the only way to go. Fried okra used to be part of my mom's Supper of Bounty.

Fried Okra, Fried Squash, Fried potatoes, fresh sliced tomatoes, cantaloupe, corn on the cob, green beans.

I can git some awesome fried okra at Ryan's Steak House all year around on the food bar.

Boiled young okra out of the garden, you can't come by, unless you do it yerself!!!

I want to make some more of Hobo's pickled okra too!!!!

 

[Bruce (VA)]

You forgot the sidemeat. Or some salt fatback. Boiled for a minute or two, drained then fried.

I worked w/ a girl raised in AZ. She moved here to VA to attend college where she met her very southern husband to be. She told the story to a bunch of us about going home w/ him to meet his parents for the first time & was just horrified to find a can of bacon grease in the refrigerator. We all just looked at each other....and asked her what the h3ll you were supposed to fry squash in, season snaps, etc, if it wasn't bacon grease! One of the other girls said she would be surprised to find it in the refrigerator because she kept her can on the back of the stove!

 

[Bob Harvey]

AMAZING !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Start with " Fuel Problem" and get more gardening than answers to the problem---you guys have WAAY too much time on your hands, maybe there should be a "Gardening" section and a TV spot for the best garden. Jist pokin' a stick. b

 

[Tom N MS]

Not sure what fried okra and butter beans has to do with your original question..Here is the answer to your question. Sediment bowl neoprene gaskets
NAPA/Balkamp "O-ring" p/n 730-9506

 

[Gaspump]

Need to check out the post below that references that part. That NAPA number changed 5-7 years ago and is now what I consider junk. I first posted that number here some 10-12 years ago and ever since it changed I feel an obligation to warn folks that it is not the same thing at all. I give it a less than 50% chance of working. I say make your own or consider cork.

 

[Tom N MS]

Thanks-so that"s why---when I gave one to my Dad a while back, it leaked. He went and got another one just like it and it sealed off..

 

[Clelle]

I had bought some of the Napa O rings a few months ago and having a heck of a time getting it to seal, come to find out the top part was cracked where the fuel line went in, I must have tried about 15 times to make that thing seal before finding the crack. So after removing it and some JB weld she is as good as new!!