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73-87 Chevy _ GMC Trucks => Engine/Drivetrain => Topic started by: 1986GMCSierra on December 21, 2014, 11:01:37 am

Title: BACKFIRE
Post by: 1986GMCSierra on December 21, 2014, 11:01:37 am
My stock 1986 GMC 305 has a high idle problem and after she gets warmed up she backfires uncontrollably... i was thinkin the timing might br off a little but that doesnt fix the high idle.. Need help guys. thanks
Title: Re: BACKFIRE
Post by: 78BIG-TEN on December 21, 2014, 05:49:58 pm
Choke being stuck could cause the high idle and also deliver to much fuel and
fouled the plugs causing your backfire
Title: Re: BACKFIRE
Post by: Irish_Alley on December 21, 2014, 06:00:58 pm
wheres it backfiring out of? but high idle could be a vacuum leak, the vacuum lean would cause a lean condition and the lean condition might lead to higher temps and cause pre detonation? again this is 100% a guess but might be plausible
Title: Re: BACKFIRE
Post by: 1986GMCSierra on December 23, 2014, 09:57:25 am


wheres it backfiring out of? but high idle could be a vacuum leak, the vacuum lean would cause a lean condition and the lean condition might lead to higher temps and cause pre detonation? again this is 100% a guess but might be plausible

its coming out of my exhaust if thats what you mean?
Title: Re: BACKFIRE
Post by: rich weyand on December 23, 2014, 01:39:45 pm
Check your timing and that the distributor is clamped down tight.  Temperature changes in the winter can loosen a marginally tightened distributor, which will then rotate with the rotor shaft to a more retarded setting.  Retard it enough, and you will get backfires (actually, afterfires, since they are coming out the exhaust, not the carb).
Title: Re: BACKFIRE
Post by: 1986GMCSierra on December 23, 2014, 03:42:32 pm


Check your timing and that the distributor is clamped down tight.  Temperature changes in the winter can loosen a marginally tightened distributor, which will then rotate with the rotor shaft to a more retarded setting.  Retard it enough, and you will get backfires (actually, afterfires, since they are coming out the exhaust, not the carb).

ok i will check my distributor thanks