blistovmhz
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- Vancouver, BC
Hey all. I wouldn't ask, as I'm sure it's something simple, but my ex's Jeep shit the bed, and she's either selling it (hopefully to me if I can figure out how to move it the 1000km home), or scrapping it. I figure if she sells it, she'll get more for it if she knows whats wrong, or perhaps fixes it.
She drove around with the exhaust hanging by a thread for months. Finally had a shop install new muffler, but they didn't check the cat.
She threw codes P0138 and P0436, which suggests that she melted the cat. It's making the traditional "shake a can of nails" sound at idle.
I suspect the shop that did the new muffler were completely incompetent.
Jeep still drives, but starts to stutter/stall below 1500RPM.
My first guess is a melted/broken CAT, and I'm going to have her (hopefully) pull the downpipe and see if the problem goes away (in which case, maybe I just fly over and drive it home). If not, I'm thinking fuel delivery, plugged air filter, or bad plugs/wires/cap in that order. Sound about right? I covering all the obvious bases here?
She drove around with the exhaust hanging by a thread for months. Finally had a shop install new muffler, but they didn't check the cat.
She threw codes P0138 and P0436, which suggests that she melted the cat. It's making the traditional "shake a can of nails" sound at idle.
I suspect the shop that did the new muffler were completely incompetent.
Jeep still drives, but starts to stutter/stall below 1500RPM.
My first guess is a melted/broken CAT, and I'm going to have her (hopefully) pull the downpipe and see if the problem goes away (in which case, maybe I just fly over and drive it home). If not, I'm thinking fuel delivery, plugged air filter, or bad plugs/wires/cap in that order. Sound about right? I covering all the obvious bases here?
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