Fuel system diagnostic help.
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    Sun Dec 24 08:56:10 EST 2000
    
    
  
> I think the hot plug wire is a red herring. The symptoms you describe
> sound like a fuel starvation problem. Next time this happens, go open
> the fuel tank, and see if you get a huge whoosh of air going into the
> tank.
You should have partial vacuum in the tank - it's designed that way.
The emission regulations (pretty well world wide) require control of
hydrocarbon venting - that's also why the breathers are fed back into
the intake.
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