Bad exhaust smell
I rode the motorcycle to work this morning and when I came into town I got behind an F-150 like mine and his exhaust smelled like a combination of battery acid and rotten eggs. It was so bad it burned my nose and eyes. Couldn't see smoke but it was a lot stronger when he accelerated from a stop light. I was just wondering if he was burning something other than gas or if he has a serious engine problem and what that might be.
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Usually the rotten egg smell is an indicator that the catalytic converter is shot. I don't know what causes the smell, or what determines that it's shot. The internals of a cat are a ceramic type of material - maybe asbestos??. I hollowed out a cat in a Mustang I had.
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his cats were either bad, or going to be bad very quickly.
he's probably been running really rich and fouled them up. or he may just have really high mileage. |
Yep, sounds like a bad cat. The rotten eggs smell is the telltale sign.
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