At 08:01 PM 11/11/2007, neil N wrote... >The vaccum source for the pressure regulator is from the air intake >distributor. IF there's only a pinhole leak in the fuel reg. diaphram, >then wouldn't that little bit of fuel just get burned off? Yes, which means the engine will run too rich. It would also cause the FPR to produce too high a pressure (not much, relatively, for a pinhole), which also causes rich running. The bigger the hole in the diaphragm, the richer. |
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