Plugged cat
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Plugged cat
Anyone ever have a plugged cat? I searched on here and other forums and all I really found was pre-emptive cat-ectomies but not much on them plugging up. Figured I would post my experience for documentation that they do plug up.
I have had my share if issues with this engine, but it seemed to be running decent after the last dealer adventure. Then about a month later, power began decreasing and boost decreasing. The rate of decline was noticable to a week later barely pulling itself up the hill with only 5 psi of boost. Back to dealer (like a horse to its stable), and I await diagnosis.
Guy calls and says its a plugged cat. I said you mean that thing I leave on to not void my factory warrenty? He says yep and we have a new one on order for you. Unfortunately its 1700 bucks and you are 5000 miles out of the emmisions warrenty.
I took it home and gutted it out and had it back in place in one hour. Finally runing good! I hope it last a while.
I have had my share if issues with this engine, but it seemed to be running decent after the last dealer adventure. Then about a month later, power began decreasing and boost decreasing. The rate of decline was noticable to a week later barely pulling itself up the hill with only 5 psi of boost. Back to dealer (like a horse to its stable), and I await diagnosis.
Guy calls and says its a plugged cat. I said you mean that thing I leave on to not void my factory warrenty? He says yep and we have a new one on order for you. Unfortunately its 1700 bucks and you are 5000 miles out of the emmisions warrenty.
I took it home and gutted it out and had it back in place in one hour. Finally runing good! I hope it last a while.
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I cut mine off within 10 minutes of buying my truck. Good thing around here the exhaust shops don't care a bit to do it. When I was stationed in Colorado I took my mustang to an exhaust shop and asked them to cut the cats off and they looked at me like I was a terrorist and told me to get the hell out of their shop.
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I wish I would have done it earlier. To those on the fence... if not concerned with warrenty issues, do it. When held up to the light, I could only see about 5 spots of light about the size of a pin head.
I wonder how long it has been hampering performance? Like I said above, the real noticable decline really only took a week, but now that it is done, I am seeing boost levels higher than I ever have. I can now hit 27 psi unloaded. Even when brand new, the thing when only ever get close to 22-25. It really seems to run well now. I hope to see some mileage increase. When the vehicle was new, I could get 18 or 19 and that has declined very steadily down to about 16.5 over the last 4-5 years.
I wonder how long it has been hampering performance? Like I said above, the real noticable decline really only took a week, but now that it is done, I am seeing boost levels higher than I ever have. I can now hit 27 psi unloaded. Even when brand new, the thing when only ever get close to 22-25. It really seems to run well now. I hope to see some mileage increase. When the vehicle was new, I could get 18 or 19 and that has declined very steadily down to about 16.5 over the last 4-5 years.
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