Date:         Fri, 21 Mar 2003 15:48:36 -0600
Reply-To:     Dylan Spurgin <vanagon@MAIL.SPURGIN.NET>
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From:         Dylan Spurgin <vanagon@MAIL.SPURGIN.NET>
Subject:      Re: Starting trouble revisited
Comments: To: David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us>
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Thanks for the reply, David.

It's coming from the exhaust so it may be normal as you say.  When I first
got the bus it did the same thing but stopped after I had the valves worked
on.  Every since the long trip from Tx to Denver and back it's been doing
it again.  I'm not too worried about it but I thought it might be related
to the starting problems I'm having.  i.e. Not enough air when starting and
not enough air to burn all the fuel while it's running.

ds

At 16:29 3/21/2003 -0500, David Brodbeck wrote:

>On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Dylan Spurgin wrote:
>
> > That helped a lot and it runs pretty smoothly now
> > excepting some backfiring when decelerating while in gear.
>
>When you say 'backfiring when decelerating', is it backfiring through the
>intake, or the exhaust?  Popping from the exhaust while decelerating in
>gear usually means you have an exhaust leak.  It's normal for some
>unburned fuel to come out the exhaust in that situation, and if you have a
>leak enough fresh air will get in to let the hot gases in the exhaust
>ignite.
>
>
>David Brodbeck, N8SRE
>'82 Diesel Westfalia
>'94 Honda Civic Si