RE: [DML] vacuum leaks

["Joseph Kuchan" <josephkuchan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

An excellent way to trace down very elusive vacuum leaks is with a smoke 
machine. It can find most leaks in miuntes. Not too many shops have these as 
they are expensive, but if you are chasing a frustrating leak it may be 
worth an hour's charge at some shop for them to hook one up to your car.

-Joe Kuchan


>
>...  The intake of the Delorean's PRV can be tough to seal.  There are a 
>lot of places for it to leak, some of them obscure.  I talked recently with 
>a shop that had done what I considered to be an extraordinary job of 
>finding a hole in the system.  By clamping of hoses, they had traced their 
>rough idle to a crack in the rigid vacuum line running forward from the 
>right side of the engine to the front of the car to feed the brake booster.







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