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hey guys! i have a 79 4x4 with the 1.8 pretty stock for the most part minus the 32/36 weber and electronic ignition. anyways decided to stop neglecting her and pulled out of the brush and get her goin again. the timing was way out of whack last it drove so did a basic tune up cap rotor wires plugs checked the oil started right up with a sprits of starting fluid, timed it, set to 6 degrees BTDC after it warmed up a bit idled pretty decent gave it some gas and it just kept backfiring through the carb I'm kinda stumped as to which dirction I should be looking I triple checked timing to make sure it was right, cleaned the vacc timing plate everything on the ignition side seems okay to me and it only seems to backfire under a load. any advice would be greatly appreciated TIA

I run the weber 38 DCD carb, and I had this kind of backfire through the carb because the most lean idle/air was set too rich. My plugs also used to foul within 100 odd miles.

Once I sorted this out, the truck is running very well, and quite fuel efficient, with zero in carb backfires.

What do the spark plugs look like?

Also another note, I'm running 8* BTDC - Dont know if this might have a bigger impact.

Last stupid question, firing order is correct?

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1975 Luv 1.6L Stocker (G161) - 4 Speed Manual