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Re: Hesitating/backfiring

To: "wcameyer" <wcameyer@email.msn.com>
Subject: Re: Hesitating/backfiring
From: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:21:46 -0400
This area I don't know but that never stopped me before. Could the symptoms 
suggest something like delayed vapor lock primed by the initial trip?


Bill



At 10:50 AM 06/27/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello, List:
>I need help.  Twice recently I've driven 10-15 miles, my '77 B rdstr running
>beautifully at speeds up to 85.  Then it is parked for 1/2 to a full hour.
>On the way back, after a while, it will hesitate, buck like H---, and
>possibly backfire between 60 & 70.  On Father's Day, it ran like a top for
>200 miles at speeds up to 90.  Standard engine, Piper 270 cam, Weber
>downdraft.
>What's going on here?  What should I check?
>
>Bill


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