[Vwdiesel] sparks out the tailpipe

[LBaird119 at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/10/2007 3:08:49 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
mikitka at embarqmail.com writes:

> It surprised me to see so many if any sparks coming out of the
> exhaust when I left off the throttle.  Is it normal for this to happen? I do
> not have an EGT gage and wish I did, Boost was maxed out at 12psi for about
> 20 seconds or so.
> 

  I've had it happen once on a Rabbit I bought, resurrected 
and sold.  It'd been running really poorly obviously and had 
a lot of soot in the tailpipe, on the pistons and also had a 
glass pack coming apart.  I put a head on it, got it running 
and proceeded to start driving it around.  It was sluggish but 
got faster and faster.  As it started winding up more and more, 
it'd throw out a batch of sparks and occasionally some 
fiberglass!
  Sounds like you're a bit carboned up and as you wound it out, 
you got the carbon all glow-ey and spit it out.  Sounds like you 
need to get on it a little more often.  :-)
     Loren


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