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On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 09:13, ICBM Webmaster wrote: > Here's the story: > Me and my girlfriend are merrily driving along in my baby. We enter a > tunnel and she wants me to rev the engine (it's LOUD in the tunnels) so I > oblige. When we leave the tunnel there's suddenly this loud popping sound > coming from the exhaust. I mean LOUD, like backfiring. I have > acceleration, but it's not as powerful as normal now, and there's the > backfiring. The engine backfires at idle as well. Only under very, very > slight throttle does the backfiring stop (from what I can hear). > Battery is good, all four plugs are firing, valve lash is correct, rocker > arms and push rods move (I rotated the engine 'by hand' and watched them all > move). Distributor cap and rotor are in good condition, Pertronix > electronic points (those either work or they don't, no inbetween I've ever > heard of), new plug wires (all passing spark, I have a timing light and > 'engine analyzer' that gives rpm and flashes an LED every time the spark > fires). > My next guess is...I $ hate $ to $ even $ think $ it $...compression check > the cylinders to find the side with the burned valve/dropped valve seat. > Suggestions? Remember, bored and stroked 2007cc w/8:1 compression, 40mm > Dells. More info at http://www.icbm.org/erkson/personal/VWSTATS.HTM > This is a fairly new engine, just broken in last year (dino oil, no > synthetics) and not driven much. Help!-- If there are no mechanical noises, I would guess right off hand that maybe you broke an exhaust valve spring, of bent an exhaust valve. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT (It drove) '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/