At 10:38 AM 5/8/2001, John Schaper wrote:
>In my 85 GL on Sunday, I was driving down from Sonora Pass when I experience
>the engine backfiring going downhill, rpm's at 4,000, coasting.  I have a
>small leak in my exhause, upstream from the O2 sensor.  Is this a timing
>thing?

Whatever else it is, it sounds like a throttle-switch thing -- at
closed-throttle it should be cutting off the gas entirely above 1500 rpm.

d

David Beierl - Providence, RI
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'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"