Thread: vaccuum switch for shut-down
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Old 04-23-2007, 09:40 PM
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Originally Posted by rrgrassi View Post
The fuel shut off valve is vacuum/mechanical. Not electrical.

What happens is this. The vacuum pump on the MB 616 is powerd by the engine. It feeds the brake booster, locks, and engine shut off valve. A...

The ingition switch aligns the vaccuum ports so that vacuum is pulled to the fuel shut off valve resulting in fuel being cut off.

I found that out the hard way by hooking up the cut off valve to the locking system which uses a vacuum keeper.
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and thank you for this post, it taught me something I was trying to figure out.
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