Hello,

I have removed my fuel and surge tanks for KBS Sealing. I am curious if anyone knows where I can get the seals that seal the nipple to the tank on the surge tank return and fuel rail return lines. I attached pictures of what I am referring to. I have since extracted the seals from the tank, but you can see the green colored seal that was left in the tank when the nipple came out. I didn't see these mentioned in "the book".

Thanks,

Bill.

 

I may be wrong about USA spec cars, but on mine the sealing mechanism is a brass "olive" that is a compression fitting. Maybe yours have been removed and changed for the type you illustrate?

If they have, new brass olives can be bought at any old-style hardware store, just measure the O/D of the pipe; it will probably be an imperial size (eg 1/2 inch, 7/16ths etc).

Greg

 

Thanks Greg in France.

It's an olive all right, but I kept nosing around and found this part which is a Viton Olive which is what mine was using. I have 2 on the way. I probably could have used a brass one instead but didn't want to take a chance of dealing with a weird leak after getting the tank back in so figured I better go with the way it was. Anyway.........

Thank you.

 

where did you find these? i just put my tank back in and want to replace the aged parts from future cracks.
thanks,

1989 XJS 5.3 rouge collection

 

cbc4720 - Viton Olive

That should do it.

Good luck.