One of my employees 'quick fix' solution, pro/cons?
Punching holes in a plugged up cat..
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might be more effective if you sawzall it off until you can get it replaced?
Con= no longer effective
Pro= looks like it is
We use to do it all the time and still pass emission back in the dark ages. Now a days if it doesn't set a code on an OBD II system it's all good
Pro= looks like it is
We use to do it all the time and still pass emission back in the dark ages. Now a days if it doesn't set a code on an OBD II system it's all good
We did this to a family broken down in an F250 in Death Valley (near the race track) a few years ago to get them out of the desert. The truck would run for about 50 yards and die. Quick work with a screwdriver and they were back in "town" for ice cream that evening.
I did this on my 77 Toyota pickup back in 1982. I was coming home on leave from Alameda and somewhere in the middle of the Mojave desert the dam beads sintered and plugged the cat, and it got so hot it caught my carpet on fire
While there were no actual flames in the cab there was a lot of smoke
!I had to tear out the carpet just to make it home to Albuquerque and the floor board was too hot to touch. When I got home my dad told me to drop the exhaust pipe and ream the cat out "real guud like"
. That fixed my hot cat problem and I ran it that way for the next fifteen years. When I moved to the Phoenix area in 1985 I was nervous about the emissions testing, but the engine ran so clean it passed without a working cat!I didn't notice any loss of power or mileage after reaming the cat, but I was young then and didn't notice much of anything
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smoking carpet!? Dam, that's hot!
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I got a chance to look at it on Friday, there is a flange where it meets the exhaust header, looks like the whole 9 yards can be pulled out and (I suggested drilled upside down), to keep the shavings from plugging up the muffler which is at the end.
Started as a missfire code, he washed the engine and the plug chambers were full of water. The Problem is, he drove it that way for several days and the cat code reared it's ugly head. New wires, plugs, and all clear, except for the converter which keeps coming back.
His only concern is, will it pass emissions. Due next month. Good guy on hard times, and his daily driver.
Depends on the year. If it gets a sniffer test, he may be in trouble. If it's OBDII, clear the codes and give it a whirl.