Oil consumption, MC2

[Larry C Leung]

Yeah, the exhaust is pretty solid. Sounds like a drop job. The problem is
I don't have the means.
Any other tests for clogged cats?

TIA,

LL - NY


On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 19:22:37 -0400 Huw Powell <human747 at attbi.com>
writes:
>
>
> l.leung at juno.com wrote:
> >
> > Huw wrote: I think it sounds like a clogged cat to me....
> >
> > Had thoght about that in the past, but not recently. I take it the
> only
> > way to find out is to drop the exhaust, eh?
>
> Well, that is the "right" way, I guess... you should only have to
> undo
> the joint behind the cat to push the pipe aside and see what's up
> in
> there.  Might be easier said than done, at least have some new bolts
> and
> gasket on hand to reassemble.
>
> The crude test is to bang the cat with a dead blow hammer and see if
> it
> rattles, though to me this seems like a handy way to bust up a good
> unit.  If there is enough play to shake it at all that might also
> give
> away some info, but your cat is probably pretty tightly affixed to
> the
> downpipe.
>
> --
> Huw Powell
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