ok, well, remembering the climbing adage that if you can't climb up, climb down, I loosened the poker chip and now it's stopped leaking. The poker chip is bobbing up and down, which I assume it will do as necessitated by the actions of the fuel pump, but it's not leaking as far as I can tell.

Am I good to go? I will order the lift pump repair kit and a new primer pump, as now I am good and chastened about having neglected to do that. I suspect the primer pump was overtightened last time I changed the filters (when I had to take it to my indie for a new hose clamp on the inline because it was leaking badly there). My hypothesis is that an air burp overtaxed a too-torqued primer pump. Yes?

Is it ok to drive this afternoon? Got a wedding to go to 30 mi away...

ps please be nice as I am a very stupid girl and thus, well, stupid.

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1980 300SD 220,xxx
somewhere, nc