Ditto on my ex - 91 wrangler (upgraded to a 95 Sahara) a few years back.
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From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net On Behalf Of dmeadow@juno.com
Sent: Monday, June 23, 1997 9:01 PM
To: gardner@lwcomm.com
Cc: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: mgs@autox.team.net digest #9 Thu Jun 19 09:37:06 MDT 1997
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997 02:59:12 +0000 "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>
writes:
>> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 09:37:06 -0600 (MDT)
>> From: mgs-owner@autox.team.net
>> Reply-to: mgs-owner@autox.team.net
>> Subject: mgs@autox.team.net digest #9 Thu Jun 19 09:37:06 MDT
>1997
>
>> I may get flamed for this, but are you sure your exaust system is
>clear?
>> The center muffler on my 73 disintegrated once and caused some weird
>> problems, kind of like ramming a potato up the exaust pipe.
>>
>> Just a thought, Don Walton in NC
>>
>Don,
> If you get flamed for this, I'll loan you my nomex firesuit.
>I had
>the same thing happen to the core in my wife's Cavalier (Sooo glad we
>sold that P.O.S.) The converter core collapsed, and the car would
>barely run. Excessive backpressure can really do a number on an
>engine, with symptoms that hardly scream "look in the tailpipe!"
>Scott
>
Interesting. Not that we want to get on a Cavalier thread, here, but I
had exactly the same experience with the SO's '88. So I spent a day
under it installing a new converter. The old one had big chunks of
catalyst rolling around inside. The bad part of the story is... we still
own the POS ;-(
David Littlefield
Houston, TX
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