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Charcoal Filter neck leaking

raisetheprice

raisetheprice

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The neck at the top of the tank is leaking ever so slightly, but enough to p!ss me off. Problem is I can't turn the carwash off long enough to let it dry in order to apply an apoxy. Do they make something that I could use for wet applications to seal this leak?
 
I doubt you'll find anything that will actually work. There are epoxy kits you can get at a plumbing supply place, but you might as well just replace the tank.

Does it have a gray PVC adaptor between the head and the tank? Those sometimes crack and leak.
 
Don't waste the money on an epoxy fix. You should be able to fix it without interrupting the wash. You only need that water supply for the RO system. Simply turn the RO production off and then remove the head from the tank. This is assuming the leak is caused by water seeping around the threads at the top opening. You may need a pipe/strap wrench to do this right. Take the head off and put teflon tape on the threads, and put silicone grease on the internal fitting that the central pipe goes into. Put it back on and snug it up nice and tight and see what happens. Whole procedure should be 10 to 15 minutes.
 
MEP001 said:
I doubt you'll find anything that will actually work. There are epoxy kits you can get at a plumbing supply place, but you might as well just replace the tank.

Does it have a gray PVC adaptor between the head and the tank? Those sometimes crack and leak.
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Yes, it's not leaking at the threads but at the tank around the gray part. Where is the best place to find a tank? Can I just do as mac says and take the head off and put a new tank back without having to buy the whole setup? It's time...9 years old and never touched it.
 
It sounds like you have a 2.5" thread head in a 4" thread tank, and the gray PVC piece is just a tank adaptor which you can replace. Just turn off the water, unscrew the head, then the adaptor.

Don't use Teflon tape on the threads. They aren't cut to make a seal. Only an idiot would tape the threads on a softener head.
 
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