Thread locker on fuel tank?

[mcfarmall]

Blue loctite is for threaded FASTENERS, not pipe joints. I'm sure Loctite has a product that is meant for sealing pipe joints containing gasoline.

 

[Clint S]

If you look at the product data sheets under product specs is shows on the Loctite page it will tell you that 242 has 95% adhesion strength after 1000 hours for unleaded gasView attachment efa3ab187ce4b5b13a8dd16a7c2b06dc015bc2b8.pdf

 

[John_Mc]

If you look at the product data sheets under product specs is shows on the Loctite page it will tell you that 242 has 95% adhesion strength after 1000 hours for unleaded gasView attachment 580243

That sounds OK until you look at it the other way: It looses 5% of it's adhesion strength after only 1.5 months of exposure to unleaded gas.

 

[Deere Dude]

Blue loctite is for threaded FASTENERS, not pipe joints. I'm sure Loctite has a product that is meant for sealing pipe joints containing gasoline.

I was a pipefitter in a factory and if I want joints to leak, i would use something other than Loctite 242. Don't get me wrong, I used Teflon paste and sometimes tape, but a majority of the time I tried to use 242 because I didn't want to redo joints. I worked on HP grease, paint, air, water and almost anything else.