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Old 03-30-2015, 02:09 PM
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Actually, the pin connection is on top of the plastic fuel pump housing, outside of the fuel tank. It is normally sealed off from gasoline, until you have a problem like this which results in a hole in the fuel chamber. Dielectric, I'm hoping, will reduce the chance of that hole reoccurring, thereby keeping the fuel and its vapors away from the connection.

Agree. Those pins are in air.


Contacts in a fuel tank are always a bad idea. TWA800.
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