[Vwdiesel] sparks out the tailpipe

[Bryan Belman]

Sounds like a good answer, but that would scare the
hell out of me seeing that.


--- LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:

> 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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Bryan Belman, Pt Pleasant, NJ
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