Idle Screw O-ring

[doubt at inwave.com (Nate Mellom)]

Unless I missed something, the idle screw (with O ring) and the O ring 
itself should be available for very cheap at the dealer.  I replaced my 
8v idle screw as a unit for something like $4.00 at my local dealership.

Nate


Matt Gregory wrote:
> I bought every size o-ring I could find at Advance, Autozone, Napa, 
> Pepboys, Lowe's, HomeDepot, and Ace.  Some of the inside diameters were 
> right, but the outside diameter would be way too big or small.  Hadn't 
> thought of tractor supply places or heavy equipment.  I just left the 
> closest size o-ring on and applied teflon tape liberally to the threads 
> and left it at that.  I was sick of looking.
> 
> But if you come across one, I'm certainly interested.
> 
> matt.
> 
> On 15 May 2007, at 10:14 AM, Camron D. Crouse wrote:
> 
>> Karl Krupke wrote:
>>> Hi Cameron,
>>>    This might sound odd but as an O-ring source you might try a 
>>> Caterpillar dealer/ service shop if there's one close to you (or try 
>>> other Heavy Equipment/ Agricultural shops; John Deere, Case, etc.). 
>>> Cat puts out O-ring kits to their dealers; each box has a wide 
>>> variety of diameters and cross-section sizes... you can probably just 
>>> pick through until you find the correct fit and then purchase 
>>> quantity one of same.
>>>    Eh... if you do, please post to the list the Cat part number, I'm 
>>> sure someone will find the informtion helpful.
>>> good luck, Karl
>>
>> Thanks for the tip, there is a number of heavy-equipment dealers 
>> across the river in Portland, and a few tractor and farm equipment 
>> places here in Da 'Couve.  But don't suppose we'd find what we need 
>> just over at a NAPA store?  I haven't looked yet, but they seem to 
>> have that sort of stockpile of doo-dads.
>>
>> - Camron from Vancouver, WA USA
>>   '86.5 Black 16V 2.0L
>>
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