- 1. Hot Catalyst (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 21:34:31 -0800
- Hi All Finally got my 78 Midget licensed today. It spent 11 weeks at the shop to replace a manifold gasket that I decided not to do myself, (that still leaks), and to get smog checked, only to find o
- /html/spridgets/2000-01/msg00878.html (7,803 bytes)
- 2. Re: Hot Catalyst (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 23:44:33 -0800
- Hi David, Having once had a red hot convertor (which is now hollow and still passes smog, shh-don't tell AQMD) There are only two reasons that I know of for the cat to glow cherry red: 1. Mixture is
- /html/spridgets/2000-01/msg00882.html (8,331 bytes)
- 3. Re: Hot Catalyst (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 09:20:26 EST
- << Having once had a red hot convertor (which is now hollow and still passes smog, shh-don't tell AQMD) There are only two reasons that I know of for the cat to glow cherry red: 1. Mixture is WAY too
- /html/spridgets/2000-01/msg00895.html (7,330 bytes)
- 4. Re: Hot Catalyst (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 06:21:15 -0800 (PST)
- David, Take care of it - my MGB (1st car - years ago) did this in the middle of a long trip. By the end, the fire department was escorting me home. Lotus nearly caught fire a few years ago. When I p
- /html/spridgets/2000-01/msg00897.html (7,261 bytes)
- 5. Re: Hot Catalyst (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 08:50:44 -0600
- Reading Ron's reply, when I got to the statement "When I pulled the cat off," I was wondering where he was going! Bob
- /html/spridgets/2000-01/msg00898.html (7,998 bytes)
- 6. Re: Hot Catalyst (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 10:13:58 -0500
- Too lean makes the >>engine<< run hotter, but too rich makes the catalytic converter run hotter. A CatCon works by "burning" (technically, oxidizing) unburned hydrocarbons in the exhaust stream, by
- /html/spridgets/2000-01/msg00903.html (8,599 bytes)
- 7. Re: Hot Catalyst (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 08:18:26 -0800 (PST)
- That's for another list entirely... == Ron Soave IGNORE THE YAHOO MESSAGE BELOW!!!!! Do You Yahoo!?
- /html/spridgets/2000-01/msg00910.html (6,889 bytes)
- 8. Re: Hot Catalyst (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 08:20:53 -0800 (PST)
- Absolutely correct (that's what happened with the Lotus - the cold start fuel injector stuck on and flooded everything). == Ron Soave IGNORE THE YAHOO MESSAGE BELOW!!!!! Do You Yahoo!?
- /html/spridgets/2000-01/msg00911.html (7,459 bytes)
- 9. Re: Hot Catalyst (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:29:43 EST
- << Too lean makes the >>engine<< run hotter, but too rich makes the catalytic converter run hotter. A CatCon works by "burning" (technically, oxidizing) unburned hydrocarbons in the exhaust stream, b
- /html/spridgets/2000-01/msg00958.html (7,770 bytes)
- 10. Re: Hot Catalyst (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 18:51:21 -0800
- No intake leak, just an exhaust leak from the #2/3 area, bottom side. David Riker 74 Midget 78 Midget 63 Falcon http://personalweb.sunset.net/~davidr -- Original Message -- From Charles Christ <cfchr
- /html/spridgets/2000-01/msg01059.html (7,770 bytes)
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