Re: Exhaust runs Cherry Red - non turbo

["Wm. Josiah Erikson" <wje97@hamp.hampshire.edu>]

I'd check the cam timing... I've seen that make exhausts get REALLY hot, by
allowing burning fuel to escape through open exhaust ports. Probably the
timing belt needs replacing and it skipped a tooth.
    -Josiah
    http://bork.hampshire.edu

T Berk wrote:

> Getting my stuff lined up to tackle the '78 out in the driveway.
>
> When I 1st saw it it was running poorly and I wanted to ge to the driver
> as if he was guilty of animal cruelty. :)
>
> A few days later I owned it and got it back home hardly able to run at
> all, took repeated pushing from the GTI to get it going ( against my
> better advise and judgment ).
>
> By the time it was under it's own power it ran poorly, would die if you
> took your foot off the pedal, and the exhaust down pipe was glowing like
> a turbo!
>
> Preamble leads to this:
>
> - Too lean?
>
> - TIming off?
>
> - SOmething else?
>
> - All of the above?
>
> tia,
> TBerk
>
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