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Old 10-03-2010, 08:50 AM
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Originally Posted by charles roybal View Post
Can you share this tech. with us?
You can't tell if your secondaries are opening by just revving in the driveway. You put a paperclip on your plunger flush up against the vacuum spring housing. Then take your car for a brisk run getting on it enough that you think your secondaries should have opened. Then pull over to the side of the road and look at the paperclip. If your secondaries opened, the clip will now be positioned farther down the plunger, like you see in this pic. If the paperclip is still flush up against the housing, then your secondaries are not opening.

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