OK. I will surely check it out. It parked for now until maintenance can
be done. I'm driving the Volksiebus - the light blue 88 model- in the
meantime.

John

On 3/26/2012 3:32 PM, Stephen Grisanti wrote:
> I have not experienced a clogged cat myself, but that is a common
> diagnosis for losing power. Since the muffler is after the cat in the
> exhaust system what noise you do hear may be considerably less than
> would be heard if the cat were not clogged. Since you need to yank that
> muffler anyway (when you get the time, of course), it should be easy to
> look into the end of the cat to determine if the honeycomb structure is
> broken up or out of place Others may chime in with better
> troubleshooting than this.
> Stephen
>
> --- On *Mon, 3/26/12, JRodgers /<jrodgers113@GMAIL.COM>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: JRodgers <jrodgers113@GMAIL.COM>
>     Subject: Re: '88 GL - Gradual Power Loss
>     To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>     Date: Monday, March 26, 2012, 3:50 PM
>
>     Stephen, thanks.
>
>     I had not considered the cat. I do have a ruptured muffler and simply
>     haven't had the time to address so have been running it as is thought
>     it's a bit loud. Does the cat play into that?
>
>     John
>
>     On 3/26/2012 2:45 PM, Stephen Grisanti wrote:
>      > Clogged cat?
>      > Welcom back to the list, John.
>      > Stephen
>     I hve
>