If your vehicle has been running a little slower than you wanted it to here lately, you may want to take it to the muffler shop.
When a catalytic converter starts getting clogged it cuts down on the exhaust.
When that happens, you have to push a little harder on the accelerator.
Then it gets to the point that the harder you push the slower it goes.
Then you think: Wow! What a gas guzzler!
What gives?
The converter stops up inside and the exhaust has no place to go, except backwardswell, actually it goes forward, back into the engine.
If you have a carburetor on your vehicle it can blow out there through the intake valves.
Not good.
Ever seen a movie where someone didn't want someone else to drive off, so they put a potato inside the exhaust tail-pipe?
The engine will not start!
That is exactly what happens when the converter stops up
inside the converter, it starts to rust up, then deteriorate, and eventually crumble and fall into the exhaust stream, stopping the flow of exhaust going out the tail pipe.
You may run it for a short time, but after awhile it will stop completely and the engine will not startup atall.
Get a new one put on, don't try to eliminate it; there are big-time laws against it, especially here, in the USA, and, it carries a very large fine! :-(
I doubt if you would be able to find a reputable repair shop that would do that kind of work for youI know the muffler shops wont. Johnny Law keeps an eye on them.
Tommy Sessions has been in auto repair since 1970. He publishes Auto Repair Answers Newsletter so you can learn how to keep your vehicle looking new, running safely and efficiently, while you save money and time...also, learn how to avoid shop rip offs. Don't be at the mercy of the dealerships and auto repair shops...they will have more respect for you.
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