Re: [T3] back fire through carb

["Dave Hall" <dave@hallvw.clara.co.uk>]

Your valves must be re-adjusted when you replace the head/rocker
gear.  It may be as simple a problem as this.

Dave.
UK VW Type 3&4 Club
www.hallvw.clara.net/
-----Original Message-----
From: John R. Jetty <jjetty@pahrump.com>
To: type3@vwtype3.org <type3@vwtype3.org>
Date: 25 August 1998 19:51
Subject: [T3] back fire through carb


>Well to be honest it doesn't seem to actually be back firing just
blowing
>air up through the carb
>
>Here is what happened
>
>I put my engine in and squished some push rod tubes. As the
mechanic was
>giving it a tune up my car started to leak, yep hole in a tube. I
pulled
>each head separately and replaced the push rod tubes and out it
back to
>together. Now that it is all together the side of the engine that
is acting
>up is the side leaking ( go figure)
>
>I checked the valve train it all looks fine I know it needs to be
>readjusted. there is no explosion through the carb but it is
blowing air
>through the carb.
>
>Thanks
>James
>
>P.S. it is a stock 1600 with duel solex carbs
>
>
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