yeah- listen to David- If you change your accumlator, change those little rubber hoses too while your down there. 6 hours after my accumulator was replaced, I was stranded in a parking lot with a gas leak from that little hose. Not much fun to get under to the accumulator at midnight.. Eric Itzel vin 4433 ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Teitelbaum" <jtrealty@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 11:22 AM Subject: [DML] Re: Fuel accumulator Test > Clamping off the line is not a difinative test. I much prefer to > remove the relief line coming off the top of the acumulater and clamp > the hose. Then I put a short piece of hose on the acumulater into a > pail. Now you have an infallible visual test. If any quantity of fuel > comes out of the acumulater from that port when you run the fuel pump > you KNOW that the diaphram is leaking. BTW I have seen black chunks > come out. Pieces of a blown diaphram. I prefer to see them come into > my pail rather than into the gas tank. In any case if you do replace a > bad acumulater I think it is good practice to clean out the fuel tank > to get rid of those chunks. This all happens before the fuel filter > you know. Another point to make. When Rob Grady does an inspection > under the car he now pays special attention to that little hose from > the top of the acumulater. > To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/