You are probably right, as long as you never have to undo it. What
happens then? Like after a rebuild. At the best you have a cross-thread
situation, at the worst threads fall out (or in). I plan on keeping my
truck a long time. I have spent a lot of money and time doing things
correctly. To intentionally screw a tapered, standard pipe thread into a
straight metric hole goes against my grain.
        There is big sign in my garage to remind me; "There is never time
to do it right but there is always time to do it twice".

Good Luck and Drive Safely
Ken Lewis
86 Crewcab, 60 356 T-5
http://Neksiwel.20m.com/

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 20:17:11 -0500 (EST) David Brodbeck
<gull@cyberspace.org> writes:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Ken Lewis wrote:
>
>
> I've heard, though, that they'll mate with each other and make a
> leak-free
> joint if you use a little teflon tape.  These are tapered pipe
> threads so
> there's some room for fudging, I would think.
>
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