> I have a 1987 Mazda b2200 truck 4 cyl 2.2 5 speed.It recently started
> backfiring
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> with these
> ?Thanks in Advance
'87 and 2.2 differ, but my '82 626, running a 2.0, was backfiring like
crazy anytime I came off the gas (shifts, decelerate, etc). Finally
tracked it down to a bad air-injection control valve vacuum line - it
had enough of a crack in it that it wasn't pulling the valve shut to
stop the air-pummp from shoving air into the exhaust when I came off the
throttle, which made the mix in the cat just right to go *BANG*.
(Violently enough to blow the muffler wide open before I finally tracked
the problem down) Replacing the vacc. line cured the problem.

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