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Old 04-06-2013, 04:20 PM
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Originally Posted by skalie View Post
Do you mean the vacuum shutoff ?

I was curious as to whether the default state would be "run" or "stop" if the vacuum was faulty ( and it is, sometimes not wanting to turn off, usually when I've forgotten to turn down the manual idle control on the dash )....

.... but I had sort of eliminated that as being a possible cause as fuel is spurting out of the injectors on turnover.
Vacuum is applied to the shutoff valve to move the lever for shutdown, so the default position with no vaccum should be 'run'.

See my previous reply about the fuel....
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