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Several fuel pumps
have a vacuum booster section that operates the windshield wipers
at an almost constant speed. The fuel section then functions in the
same way as ordinary fuel pumps. One difference is that the
rotation of the camshaft eccentric in the vacuum pump also operates
the vacuum booster section by actuating the pump arm, which pushes
a link and the bellows diaphragm assembly upward, expelling air in
the upper chamber through its exhaust valve out into the intake
manifold. On the return stroke of the pump arm, the diaphragm
spring moves the bellows diaphragm down, producing a suction in the
vacuum chamber. The suction opens the intake valve of the vacuum
section and draws air through the inlet pipe from the windshield
wipers.
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