>If you have problem making the o-ring stay put in the pump body while you put
>the other half on, you can coat the O-ring with silicon grease (very thick
>gooey clear stuff) and it will stay put in the groove.  Also, if you have a
>situation where you need to slip a gissmo with O-ring in and out of some
>housing (not the case of the Vanagon water pump) you can use silicon
>grease for
>lubrication.  Silicon grease can be purchased from any full service plumber
>stores - sometimes sold as valve lubricant.

Napa Has this stuff too. Spendy though.

Joshua Van Tol -- jjvantol@uswest.net