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Subject:Re: Was: Leaky ... fuel injector? Now: suck fuel/air through vaccum side of fuel regulator?
From:Mike S
Date:Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:25:46 -0500

At 08:01 PM 11/11/2007, neil N wrote...
>The vaccum source for the pressure regulator is from the air intake
>distributor. IF there's only a pinhole leak in the fuel reg. diaphram,
>then wouldn't that little bit of fuel just get burned off?

Yes, which means the engine will run too rich. It would also cause the
FPR to produce too high a pressure (not much, relatively, for a
pinhole), which also causes rich running. The bigger the hole in the
diaphragm, the richer.