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Old 01-10-2007, 04:19 PM
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Originally Posted by leathermang View Post
99 percent chance your vacuum pump diaphram has a leak in it... that is the usual way in which oil gets to those places... also check your pipe which goes into the inside of your air cleaner ...if you have that ... if you see oil up there coming out of that line it means the diaphram is bad on the vacuum pump... those other indicators go along with that also..
Well okay then. That sounds pretty positive to be the vacuum pump. I guess since it is working, my only option to figure out if that is the problem or not is to rebuild it.

Anyone know a good way to clean out the oil that got into my vacuum lines?
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