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2bzy2c
Jun 12, 2013Explorer II
RCL wrote:
Years ago, I had a 'i83 Southwind with a 454 in it. As I recall, the shop manual stressed the routing of the ignition wires because of possible cross firing between cylinders when an wire for a firieing cylinder was routed next to a cylinder on a intake stroke.
Mine used to "sneeze" wnen under full throttle oe heavy load. As the pressure in a cylinder goes up, the voltage required to spark across the plug gap goes up, making the likelihood of a sneak path firing occur, when that sneak path goes to a cylinder in the intake cycle, you have a combustible mix, an open intake valve and you get a backfire through the intake manifold.
That makes total sense. Backfiring through the intake "generally"
is an ignition problem.
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