Re: [DML] Re: Fuel accumulator Test

[Eric Itzel <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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. 
>



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