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Originally Posted by patrickt
Make sure your son also looks for any smaller amounts of smoke that you might have missed. Also, in addition to hard acceleration, rev it up nicely and then back off the throttle so it decelerates in gear from a high rev with your foot off the gas. See if that produces smoke/backfires/massive explosions  etc. Talk to your son on your cell phone as you're doing all of this so he knows exactly what you are doing when he sees the smoke. Being able to replicate a visual, or audible, problem on demand puts you about 75% on the road to a solution. |
Will do.
I have noticed the odd minor pop /backfire on over-run from higher revs (say 3500), nothing major. Also last weekend the engine ran-on for a couple of seconds after I turned it off, it was quite hot at the time. It has not done this before.
Thanks
Kevin