<VV> Boom.(humor?)

[Louis C. Armer, Jr.]

Hey Chris, The Lone Haranguer once had a backfire and blew
the left leg off his blue jeans!!! <GGG>

Chuckster
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At 01:07 PM 6/23/04 -0400, you wrote:
>Anybody ever have a backfire blow a hole in the side of a muffler.
>
>I was working on my wifes 63, PG,2 CARB.  It will start cold, but did not
>want to restart when hot.  The motor spins, but it does not catch.
>
>Cleaned the carbs when I did the engine bay.  Good solid squirts,
>audible,  from both when you pump the gas.
>
>Carbs open at the same rate, and the gas vapor is present.  No vacume
>leaks.  All new vacume lines.
>
>Idles at about 1050 out of gear, and 750-800 in gear.  As it warms up the
>idle speed drops.
>
>Still won't restart hot.
>
>Checked the timing, it was at about 20, with the va plugged and the line
>from the carb plugged.  The dwell was at 40, reset to 32.
>
>Its a solid flyweel, is their any place to slip check?  Tried turning the
>dist a little at a time.
>
>It started, ran kind of choppy, then backfired, BOOOM, big hole in the
>mufler.  It was very rusty, had thought it would need to be replaced
>soon.
>
>Car would not re-start.  Had the wife crank the motor while I had the
>timing gun going and adjusting the timing.   It re-started, again at
>about 18 degrees, dwell still at 32.
>
>It had been running too fast.  15 MPH in gear without your foot on the
>gas.  So I decided to trim the idle speed, then the motor would not run
>(when hot).
>
>When running the motor sounds fine.  Compressiion checked fine, did not
>do a leak down test.
>
>Thanks to all.
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