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Re: [T3] Nasty Backfire
> 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/
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