Replaced the bushing and gears in my front pump, is it true that I should pack the gears with vaseline before putting it all back together?

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I know there is some type of sealer that Im supposed to use on the pump seal before I press it into the front pump housing but I dont know what kind.

I think alot of seals have a sealer embedded in the circumfrence of the seal already but mine does not appear to have anything although there is a very thin red coating and I understand that maybe thats all there is?

I ask cause the seal I took out has the same red coating but there ALOT more of it, so much that Ill have to clean the old dried up residue that still stuck to the inside of the pump flange.