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Old 11-04-2009, 08:35 AM
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Ok so I just went back out and looked under the hood to examine the area that I was working around and found that a vacuum line that connects to a black tube that goes on top of the air filter housing and attaches to the valve cover was broken. I put a new piece of tubing on to rectify that issue....
That line runs from the shaped breather hose down to the fuel pressure regulator, and allows raw fuel back into the engine if the diaphragm in the pressure regulator is torn.

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I next attempted to locate the oil sender unit which I think I found from under the hood. It is a plug that attaches to the rear of the oil filter housing correct?
Yes, that is the sender unit for the oil pressure gauge in the instrument cluster. There is also a sender unit for oil level, fitted into the driver's (left) side of the oil pan.
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