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Show Compressed Air Harmful in Drying Carburetor Blowing out the gas line or trying to dry out a carburetor with compressed com-pressed air Is not always a success. Compressed air, oddly enough, is wet. It's best to use a hand pump for blowing out lines. With this you can obtain the necessary pressure and the air that you pump will be dry. This applies especially to blowing out the air line of a gasoline gauge that operates on the pressure plan, ! excluding the special type which is j connected with the engine vacuum system. This air line must be dry if the gauge Is to be accurate. Compressed air, however, is useful in blowing water from around the spark plugs following a careless wash or If the car has been standing out In a cloudburst. |