Bleeding brakes or find a leak

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mycar
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Re: Bleeding brakes or find a leak

Post by mycar »

I'm no expert but backfiring on lift off is usually indicative of a leak in the exhaust system somewhere.

Is the backfire a recent feature ?
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Re: Bleeding brakes or find a leak

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Yes just started recently. Was helped a bit by me playing with carbs and dwell. I will do a full service to be sure

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Re: Bleeding brakes or find a leak

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I suspected dwell angle out so that is where I went first but not the answer my next guess is a blocked idle jet but best to do a full tune

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Re: Bleeding brakes or find a leak

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Cool.

Have you tried this yet ?

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Re: Bleeding brakes or find a leak

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very cool or not so cool if it goes wrong
that could go spectacularly tits up!
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