Oil consumption, MC2

[Joshua Van tol]

As someone else suggested, hook a pressure gauge to the test port. You
should see no more than a psi or 3 at full throttle.

Clogged cats are really quite uncommon though. I would strongly suspect
it's something else.
On Thursday, September 26, 2002, at 06:36  PM, Larry C Leung wrote:

> 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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>>
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>>
>>
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