Search:

Or he was looking for instant gratification ;) Posted at 8:30pm, waited an hour for an answer, and hasn't been back yet, or at least hasn't logged on. Maybe he'll drop in again and let us know what...

That's #1 or #6 with the timing mark at TDC on the dampner depending on which stroke #1 is on, compression or exhaust. That's a good tip, Jerry.

Sounds to me like you had a sudden ignition failure that led to the backfire, not that the backfire caused this problem. Like Mike says, you need to start from scratch on your ignition system, check...