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From: ccs009@ucdavis.UUCP (Dennis Michaels)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: backfiring
Message-ID: <27@ucdavis.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 17:46:51 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 26 17:46:51 1985
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> I have a Mercury Capri with a carburated 2.3 liter engine.
> I am experiencing backfiring when ever I let off the gas.
> Would anyone out there know what causes this and how I can fix
> this? Thanks.
> 
>                         George Valentini
>                         mtuxo!gv
>                         (201) 576-6198

	Sounds like your gulp valve, that is , the one-way vacuum valve
that closes the minute you take your foot off the gas, or is supposed to ...
not expensive, relative to the national debt, and does a world of wonder for
those backfires too.......

D.M.