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Old 12-31-2008, 12:44 PM
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use your hand to tighten it until it squashes the rubber seal a bit if this does not work try replacing the seal
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Old 12-31-2008, 01:34 PM
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use your hand to tighten it until it squashes the rubber seal a bit if this does not work try replacing the seal

I've always put my seals on the inside part of the tank. Replacing a seal would be tricky..
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Old 12-31-2008, 01:59 PM
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just replaced mine drained the overflow into the sump and i flooded my skimmer into a 5 gallon pail (on purpose)
to deal with not flooding the sump the end result is new seal = piece of mind
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Overflow would be doable... My Closed Loop, that's a different story. LOL
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