thank you for all of the help, here is the thing, i dont have a line going to the air filter housing, i have the piston style pump with one suction line coming from the top, i just bought a mighty vac this morning and the vacuum pulls 20 and the mercurey scale. let me give some back ground, i bought this car from a mechanic on a lean sale, they put in a "rebuilt engine" and a new factory rebuilt transmission, i trusted the engine had been rebuilt because the transmission was spotless, not one spec of road grime, you know the look that can only be acheived by soaking the case in solvent. any way here is my thought, the old vac pump was bad sucked oil into all of the lines, after they put the new engine in it sat for a while letting all of teh oil in the lines settle and now it is being sucked into the vacuum. what do you think?
thank you for you time, this is great to know people are willing to help
william