From: snipped-for-privacy@ohiou.edu (Blink)
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>Thanks for the advice Dave.
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>I did find a picture of it online and it is definately the accumulator >that is leaking.
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>Does anyone know whether the accumulator is 100% necessary? Is it
>possible that I can just bypass it? The desciptions that I have read
>of the accumulator seem to credit it with two main roles: 1) to muffle
>the noise of the pump and 2) to make hot starts easier by maintaining
>fuel pressure for about 1/2hr after the engine has been turned off.
>These seem like functions that I could possibly do without.
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>Any ideas?
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well if you bypass it tell us how you do it and how things work out. :-) does it also help maintain some even pressure with the engine running also? hmmm I will have to check on that.
later, dave Reminder........ Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes. Frieda Norris