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Old 04-30-2018, 09:27 PM   #1
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What’s the best way to connect the manometer to gain the reading?
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What’s the best way to connect the manometer to gain the reading?
An old oil fill cap with a fitting mounted to it.
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Besides the AOS, what can the Fieldpiece manometer help you diagnose on a vehicle?
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Besides the AOS, what can the Fieldpiece manometer help you diagnose on a vehicle?
A digital manometer can read both pressure and vacuum very accurately, so anywhere you would be testing either. Its major advantage is in the fact that it can read very low levels of either.
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An old oil fill cap with a fitting mounted to it.
Thanks! That's what I figured!
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