[west coast]

At the divisional I had both fronts leak, bad enough to get out of the lanes and go back to my trailer and fill one up. I took them off put them in water and found the rim to be leaking between the halfs. These are a 3 piece rims american racing wheels. I had taken them apart and had them hydra dipped. I put them back together and used a clear silcone between the halfs and ran a bead of silcone where they 2 halfs meet and smoothed it out with my finger. Is there there something better to use than silcone? could I put something over the silcone to stop the leak? Or am I starting to remove the silcone and start from scatch?