At 09:35 AM 1/18/2001, Alan Bosch wrote:
>Okay, perhaps that's just the way the van is supposed to run.  But I got
>thinking - dangerous! - on the ride into work this morning.  Since all my
>exhaust connections, from the j-pipe back thru the muffler, all seem to be
>leaking - indeed, the muffler doesn't anymore - maybe the O2 sensor is
>getting a faulty reading, causing the engine to run richer, making it run
>hotter, and decreasing the MPG.  The inter-connectedness of all things...?

ATB (according to bentley; I hereby copyright this, appoint $HKS as my
attorney of record and that flower guy what's-'is-name as
enforcer/collector, and will licence use of this superior acronym at a
paltry 25,000,000 Gold Franks per million uses or fraction thereof [you can
shave a fellow many times, but you only need to scalp him once!])  --
anyway, as I wasn't saying, both the Scripture and Holy Tradition support
the notion that any exhaust leak upstream of the cat will result in a
more-or-less richened mixture.  And Great-Uncle Robert leaned down (?  well
anyway, out from wherever he and his cousin Carl and their pal Fritz are
playing pinochle) and he said "fix your exhaust leaks, grasshopper."  Thus
endeth the lesson.

d

David Beierl - Providence, RI
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