Re: vacuum pump

["Douglas Hurst Quebbeman" <dougq@iglou.com>]

>   I'm playing with my car ('86 4kq), trying to figure out why there is no
> vacuum to the switch for the center and rear diff. lock.  In the process, I'm
> wondering what this vacuum pump on the motor is supposed to do.  All it boosts
> is the brake vacuum, right?  Why?  Of all the cars I've owned, I don't recall
> another that had a motor that was incapable of creating sufficient vacuum for
> the brakes.

I thought the vacuum pump in question was for the cruise control system.

hth, -doug q 
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