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What would make the car run. Tad after you shut it off, woould it be the timing?
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after run? can be carbon deposits in the combustion chamber?
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let me explain better, when he shuts the car off it diesels
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Excess Carbon deposits in the chamber are supposedly able to cause that. They get hot and glow and become a point of ignition. Of course there has to be fuel too.
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So he needs to get out and run that engine hard so maybe it flys out the exhaust
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high idle is the most common cause
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Yep.

http://www.misterfixit.com/diesling.htm
(without the anti-dieseling mechanism, of course)
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