If that is the case then I still don't know what is bad, and nothing has really emerged as a definitive diagnosis. I really don't want to start replacing things ****-nilly. That's kind of the point of trying to diagnose the problem-
From what you're saying I guess I need to pull a vacuum on the lockoff and the regulator output at the same time to check the regulator.
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