Home | List of Articles | Submit an Article | Contact Us

Does Your Car Engine Backfire?

Does your vehicle engine run ok?

Or does it cut-out on you sometimes when your are going to visit your in-laws?

Does it *spit* and *sputter* and *backfire*, then start running ok, again?

Symptoms of this nature can be several things.

• You could have a sparkplug wire shorting out.

• You could have an electrical wire shorting out.

• You may have some water in the fuel tank.

Let’s take the most common of these three mentioned.

Over the years you cannot keep they fuel tank full at all times.

With a fuel tank half full, the upper part can cause condensation.

This condensation will slowly build up and run down into the bottom of the tank.

When you start to pass another vehicle you call upon the fuel pump to give me more gasoline.

The fuel pump starts working overtime and picks up more fuel, then the water goes into the line along with the gasoline.

The fuel filter catches this water and since water is heavier than gasoline, it drops to the bottom of the filter.

After awhile though, you come up behind me, and I’m not driving quite as fast as you would like to go, so you floorboard it and go around me.

What happens when you floorboard it?

Right, you are asking for more fuel.

With the filter partially full of condensation, water, some of it gets picked up into the fuel line and goes to the carburetor or injector.

“Chug-a-lug, chug-a-lug, Pow!”

Purr, purr, purr.

See what happens?

You can solve this problem, most of the time, by changing the fuel filter two or three times a year.

Now, if you have just filled up at the pump, and your car starts acting this way, you may have to take the fuel tank off and clean it out.

Or, pay someone else to do it!

Tommy Sessions has been in auto repair since 1970. He publishes Bad Car Again Ezine for you to learn.

Join us: mailto:bcaezine@GetResponse.com
Visit the site: http://www.badcaragain.com

Related Articles:

Mom's Car Stereo - Do you remember the car stereo days of youth - windows down, hair wildly blowing and the radio blaring the latest and greatest musical hit? Depending on which friend was with me at the time, my in-dash could be playing dance, hip hop or even heavy metal. But no matter which music was selected, the purpose of volume was to drown out your own exubera ...

Buying a New Sports Car – Twelve Tips To Avoid Financial Sticker Shock - Nothing (well, almost nothing) can compare to the thrill of driving a road-hugging high performance sports car. Instant steering response. Power at the exact nanosecond you ask for it. Then, if you have one of the sexier models, you’ll attract attention on the road, filling up, and in the shopping mall parking lot. Yes, you can prete ...

Off Road Car Parking in the UK: What Value and When do You Need to Apply for Planning Permission? - Isn't it a shame that for most folk, taking a holiday means moving en-mass with millions of other people also doing the same thing! Long journeys, loads of bodies at airports & long traffic queues in humid conditions - why do we do it? Strange thing is, - do we ever notice any easier parking provision in our towns & cities while all these ...

How to Find Car Insurance Discounts - Saving money wherever you can is important to us all. Car Insurance should be no different. Do not assume that your insurance agent knows everything about you and your car. At HometownQuotes we go out of our way to find all the possible car insurance discounts that are available to each customer. Drivers should take advantage of all discount ...

Politicians Are Like Car Sales People... - Well, another election has come and gone in the US and no matter which way you voted there are some important marketing lessons to learn. First, you need to put aside the campaign rhetoric and focus on the strategy and tactics and there are a number of clear winners for both sides. The Dems and the GOP On the Republican side. The tactic to ...

New Cars - New Technology - Exciting Future Of Automobiles New technologies will improve fuel efficiency, increase safety, aid navigation and repair. Bend Bohn, of the German auto components company, Robert Bosch Corporation, recently predicted that internal combustion engines will continue to dominate the automotive market well into the 21st Century ...

How Not to Sell Your Car -- The 7 Deadly Sins - Deadly Sin 1 -- Not doing research This is the actual source of much of the difficulty with selling your own car. Research is the reason the car dealer has the advantage. He knows his business. The private seller usually has little to do with car prices until they want to sell their car. The main benefit of research is that you will know a ...

For a Complete list of Articles with summaries Click Here