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Old Sep 1, 2006 | 03:40 PM
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just worked on a 1995 DWG, S&S carb and SE exhaust. did minor tune up on bike, plugs,oils, and fixed a few leaks under fwd rocker box. Bike ran fine when I gave it back to the owner and now it has a back fire problem. bike has only been back in owners hands for 3 days. what in the world could have caused the bike to start a back fire now??? Thoughts,ideas. anyone.
 
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found plugs black, and bike to idle bad and adjusted the fuel air mix cleaned plugs. idle better but no power and back fire. found one spark plug wire a little loose and fixed it and cleaned up other wires on coil. as of last test drive bike ran like it did when i last saw it. We will see if the gremlins get back at it or not.
 
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