after all that hicack - turns out it was a combination of a bad fuel accumulator (which i have not replaced as of yet) and a rotten vacuum hose that connected to the tranny modulator of all things...... anyway, it is running but it still doesn't idle as it should and is hard to start - occasionally stumbles (hesitates?) when accelerating from a stand still.

question: would all of the above problems be a result of the bad fuel accumulator?