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Old 05-03-2006, 12:00 PM   #8 (permalink)
Bill Hall
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Re: My '86 22RE exhaust smells like gunpowder(?)

Ray:

Thanks for the intelligent response. Nice to see That type, rather than a
"flame".:>)
Not saying I am totally right/wrong, but like you have "many years" of
mechanical experience and will hope that the OF.UP. will let us all know
just what he found to be the problem.
Cheers;
Bill
"Ray O" <rokigawa@tristarassociatesDOTcomn> wrote in message
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> "Bill Hall" <bhallc21@verizon.net> wrote in message
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>> Sorry Ray, but I beg to differ with you!
>> Bill[/color]
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> Bill,
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> You are not differing with me, you are differing with the product
> engineers I used to work with at Toyota Motor Sales. Since their jobs are
> to design and analyze short and long term servicability of the cars, and
> they seem to be designing pretty good cars, I assume that the information
> they provided to the district service managers like me was good.
>
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> Ray O
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>> "Ray O" <rokigawa@tristarassociatesDOTcomn> wrote in message
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>>> "Bill Hall" <bhallc21@verizon.net> wrote in message
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>>>> The smell you are referring to sounds very much like the "rotten egg"
>>>> smell that is a good indicator of a defective Catalytic Converter. The
>>>> "loss" of your tailpipe and continuing to drive that way is also a good
>>>> way to burnout a converter!
>>>> Bill
>>>
>>> The rotten egg smell is not an indicator of a defective catalytic
>>> converter, and the loss of the tailpipe has no effect on the catalytic
>>> converter.
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>>> Ray O
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