jim beam wrote:

> if the cat really is clogged, i'd be beware of buying the car because it
> will either have had a serious injection problem /or/ will have spent
> its whole life pottering about on 3 mile journeys where the engine never
> got hot. both scenarios wreck a motor pdq.
>
> otoh, it may be just a blowing exhaust, in which case, it's easily fixed
> and the problem goes away. inspection will reveal all.
>
> and if your friend still wants to take their chances on whether the
> motor was in 3 mile heck, make sure the easy things are fixed like
> ignition, o2 sensor, etc., change the oil, makes sure there are no
> coolant leaks, /then/ take the car on a good hard run on some nice steep
> hills. red line, full throttle. that will burn out a bunch of the
> accumulated carbon from the engine and the cat. you'd be amazed how
> much better it can be after a couple of hundred miles of running at
> "full working temperature".
>
> then change the oil again.
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The inspection will have to wait until the middle of next week.
I managed to scratch my cornea with an allen wrench today.

Don't ask, it was rather silly and it hurts like hell so I learned
a valued leason.

I was using my hand and "pounding" on a 3/8" allen over my head,
it slipped out of the screw and spun nto my eay.

Ouch! on steroids.

No permanent damage, but the pain is too real. I wondered why they,
ER MD, gave me so many and such "pain pills". About 5:00 I learned
why. My wife says the patch reveals the true me. And my idiot cat
stays about 15' away and just looks at me in a truely unique way.

Terry