[DeTomaso] Really Hot Header

[michael at michaelshortt.com]

Serious vacuum leak leaning out one side would be my guess.

Michael Shortt


On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:33 PM, sean mundy <seanmundy at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Thought I had all my engine problems behind me but now I got a new one.
> Started running poorly again after about 15min of driving.  Won't idle,
> backfires and barely runs.
> Try again next day and it starts but 15min later, crappy again.
> This weekend it was really hard to start cold but eventually I got it to
> run for about 3-4 minutes
> by blipping the throttle a lot.  Shut it off and smelled something
> burning.
> Opened the back and my left side header was glowing red.   Right side
> header was normal.
> My IR temp gun showed only 140 on the heads.  Water and oil temp
> gauges were barely reading.
> Any ideas on what could cause just one side Header to glow red hot so
> fast?  Thanks, Sean
>
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