yes the loose screws could have been the whole problem, that would have caused the diaphragm to be moving less and less effectively, as well as the leaking

Bill

Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
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