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Date:         Tue, 8 May 2001 11:21:08 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
Subject:      Re: Back-fire
Comments: To: John Schaper <JSchaper@schsa.org>
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At 10:38 AM 5/8/2001, John Schaper wrote:
>In my 85 GL on Sunday, I was driving down from Sonora Pass when I experience
>the engine backfiring going downhill, rpm's at 4,000, coasting.  I have a
>small leak in my exhause, upstream from the O2 sensor.  Is this a timing
>thing?


Whatever else it is, it sounds like a throttle-switch thing -- at
closed-throttle it should be cutting off the gas entirely above 1500 rpm.


d




David Beierl - Providence, RI
  http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"
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