[V8] A few questions/Update

[Karl Middlebrooks]

Regarding the hissing sound, from that location, I had/have that and it was 
a loud fuel pump. Kind of a hissing/buzzing sound, right?

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From: "NIck Miller" <chance9121 at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:01 PM
To: <v8 at audifans.com>
Subject: [V8] A few questions/Update

>         I have a couple of questions to start off.  I'm thinking my
> Catalytic converters are in need of replacement, but not 100% sure.  I 
> don't
> have the cat light come on, and I don't really hear a lot of rattling or
> anything upon hitting them with a rubber mallet.  I hear a bit of knocking
> or something, but I'm not sure if it is the Cat core, or it its the
> heatshield stuff.  Any way to test them other than this?
>          I also have a hissing sound come from underneath the car while
> running.  I can't really tell if this is a cat problem or just an exhaust
> leak, but it sounds like it comes from about rear passenger side door 
> area,
> so that is near where the forward coupler to the cats are.
>
>      Also, I was wondering if anyone here has taken apart an S6 instrument
> cluster and knows which parts are similar.  I've seen some people swap in
> the S// gauge faces, but I was interested if anyone had taken apart one 
> and
> compared what swaps, or is similar, if anything.  I'm fairly certain the
> board on the rear of my cluster has one of the senders broken for the fuel
> gauge.  Its the circuit board that comes off seperate of everything else 
> and
> is about 4 x 2in, and has about 15 long pins on it.  One of the 
> transformers
> doesn't seem to activate at all.
>
>       Well, other than that, I've been slightly bored being indoors for a
> while, like the rest of the city here, so I finally got my Oxygen sensor
> issue fixed.  I redid all my wiring and soldered the connections this 
> time,
> and rewired the signal line wire, as the plug was broken, and some other
> parts of that wire were broken.  All appears well, as it idles dead on, 
> and
> drives fairly well.  Still feels down on power, though.  I still would 
> like
> to pull codes on it to verify all is well.
>
>        And, the Red has crested, and all seems to be well now.  A levy
> broke in Oak Grove center, and took out that neighborhood and the 
> highschool
> there, so that is most unfortunate.  The secondary levy stopped it after
> that.  Its incredible, the water broke through this levy underground,
> because the footings were apprently sub-par when it was installed years
> ago.  It came underneath and blew a gyser some 4ft into the air 10ft on 
> the
> other side of the levy.  Scary stuff.  We did just get some 10-15in of 
> snow
> the last few days again, so the river is expected to re-peak after it goes
> down some in mid-april.  not as high, though.  So this sure was a long
> message.  Thanks for listening and appreciate the help if anyone can offer
> it.
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