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> Just when everything seemed to be improving, my engine has taken to scaring > the living daylights out of me and everyone else in my neighbourhood. This > morning at first turn of the key, a gun shot rang out along with a cloud of > smoke/fumes. This evening it has just done the same. Now after warmup the > exhaust note sounds a bit different. I restarted at Stanford Hall VW show a few minutes after stopping, to reposition the car a bit, and got a backfire that blew the plug of sealer paste from the muffler hole. I suspect you may have a small exhaust leak and unburnt mixture from starting ignited in the muffler. Dave. UK VW Type 3 & 4 Club http://www.hallvw.clara.co.uk/ ------ ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org