[FC] two items

[James Davis]

Sounds like water saturated brake linings.  After driving through more than 
an inch of standing water, drag the brakes lightly to dry the linings 
out.  Usually takes about 1200 feet with moderate brake pressure.  I like 
to do it at about 20 mph in second gear because sometimes one brake dries 
before the other making the FC a mite twitchy.  Of course you could change 
to Porterfield carbon based semi-metallic shoes and not worry about water.
Backfire is because fuel-air mixture is being ignited in the 
muffler.  Usually the muffler is somewhat carboned-up giving the ignition 
source and the idle is high giving an excessive amount of air-fuel in the 
exhaust system.  Carbon in the muffler is from many short trips with the 
chokes on in the winter.
Jim Davis



At 10:16 PM 6/5/2004, you wrote:
>Hey group-
>
>Two things:
>
>Driving my Rampside today in some very wet rain (is there any other kind??),
>I had a weird thing happen with my brakes.  Coming to a pace where I needed
>to turn, I pushed the brakes soft then harder.  I felt like I was
>hydroplaning when I pushed them harder and felt like the steering was on its
>own.  I don't think this is the case.  This is a '61 Rampside with manually
>adjusted brakes.  Is there any reason why this might have happened??
>
>Also, what causes engine backfire?  The Rampside backfired twice today
>sounding like a bomb going off each time.  This happened right after I shut
>off the engine.
>
>Thanks!  Ben
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