Leaky/noisy fuel connections?

[Ameer Antar]

Ya, I got all the washers...many small aluminum ones, 8 larger copper, and 2 special ones for the upper bolt on the warm-up valve. I'm pretty sure I have them in right... but I was hesitant to tighten too much and snap a bolt. I don't have a good wrench to torque the small numbers right or even fit between all those hoses. That bolt is supposed to be at 18 ft-lbs, at least the Bentley shows that for a regular 5000 NA CIS setup. After a bunch of tries it seems like it stopped leaking, but I just hope the noise will just go away...

Is it OK to reuse the washers, I mean tightening and loosening and resusing???
I will try and test for leaks again when everything's dry. I'd be interested to hear if anyone else had noises coming from their fuel distributors?? Thanks.

-Ameer



----Original Message----
From: Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com>
Date: 9/1/04 2:02:27 AM
Subject: Re: Leaky/noisy fuel connections?


> Hi all, I've been so busy lately w/ work and school, but I finally got 
> some time to put in a rebuilt fuel distributor on my '85 5kT. I'm having 
> a little trouble with a couple of banjo bolt connections.

I hope you used new crush washers on every fitting?

-- 
Huw Powell

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