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Air introduced in the y-pipe mixes with unburned fuel and then ignites in the muffler. Look for holes in your y-pipe and disable any ASV's that you may have still functioning or that are bad. A rich mixture can contribute to the severity, but will not by itself cause backfireing like that - you still need the fresh oxygen to get into the exhaust stream somewhere upstream - almost always in the y-pipe in my experience.

 

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muffler.jpg

 

 

:banana:

 

 

Seriously, the resemblance is uncanny.. I think this may be my avatar's long lost cousin, Russ T Pipes!!!

 

 

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allright, allright, I'll go to bed and stop troubling you with the nonsensical ravings of a lunatic mind. :-p

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I had a 1962 Falcon Wagon that I used to switch the ignition off and on real quick to get it to backfire on command:cool: :headbang: (kids at my high school would go nuts I was a lot more foolish back then).

Once, on the Taconic Parkway in NY, I held it off just a smidgen too long and when I found the muffler in the tree line about 70 feet from where the car came to a rest:eek: it looked just like that. Only black. And with a lot of holes in it. The detonation lifted the rear of the wagon about 2 feet in the air. :eek: Bent the floorpan and it was the loudest ride I have ever taken home. That was after the ringing in my ears stopped.

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I've had that happen on a couple vehicles. I found the cause to be ignition related for the most part.

 

Your muffler looks like a slight grin compared to what the '92 Dakota did to it's muffler. When I say it blew the muffler, I mean it "BLEW" the muffler.....

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