HELP-Rotten Egg Smell

[Brett Dikeman]

At 8:43 PM -0700 11/19/02, Grant Dion wrote:
>Hello
>
>My 1991 200tq is trying to kill me. While sitting at idle it occaissionally
>develops a rotten egg smell odor. It is not always there but when it
>is...WHEW!. Any ideas as to what might be leaking that could cause this? (
>The car never drips anything on the garage floor)
>
>Also there is a large build up of crud on the oil pan that seems almost like
>a solid coating. What is the fastest/easiest way to clean this off.  I
>suspect some of the smell is this stuff baking away....

First off Grant, please don't include the entire text of a digest
when sending to the list...they're VERY big :-)

Okay...this sounds like you've got a mixture problem and the car's
running rich.  This could be an intake system(boost) leak, for
example.  Does it mostly happen after hard driving?

I used to get this smell all the time driving behind some people's
s-cars...only when they were on the boost.

Drive the car gently until it is fixed- rich running can cause damage
to the catalytic converters, and they're not cheap.

Brett
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