Re:help find vacuum leak?/stupid human tricks revisited

[Huw Powell <human@nh.ultranet.com>]

-- [ From: Huw Powell * EMC.Ver #3.1a ] --

>> Can I use Brake cleaner or other volatile material to find a vacuum leak?
Is
>> it safe for any gaskets and stuff in and around the throttle body and
mass
>> flow and such?  Thanks.

>Audi recommend (but not in North America, or they might get sued) an unlit 
propane torch.

After all the jeers when I suggested it months back, it was refreshing for
me to find, in a troubleshooting column in some 8 page industry rag (for
auto repair shops) a reference to the "standard propane method" of finding
vacuum leaks.  Just do it outside, wear goggles and gloves, and make sure
there's film in the camera....

Huw Powell
HUMAN Speakers
http://www.thebook.com/human-speakers