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I first noticed this the other day after about 8 miles on the expressway at 70-75mph.
The exhaust leak got really loud, the truck sounded deeper at the donut gasket with the rusted flange.
I also began losing power....by the time i got off the freeway, went 1/4 mile down the ramp, all seemed to be well, and i went on down the road without issue. Even 40 miles home at 55 mph.
Now today, it did it again, at 55-65 after about 6 miles. Same thing. I pushed the clutch down, rapped it a time or 2, and the power came back but it still sounded funny.
Stopped at grocery store, shut it off for about 10 minutes, figured itd be fine after that. Fired it up and it was still doing it.
Got home and crawled underneath, the front cat was so hot i burned my hand, while the back one was cooler then a cup of coffee.
I also been smelling rotten eggs at warm idle if im outside the truck for a while now, but its gotten substantially worse lately. But theres still exhaust coming out the tailpipe.
Never had a cat plug...but does this sound like whats happenin?
The exhaust leak got really loud, the truck sounded deeper at the donut gasket with the rusted flange.
I also began losing power....by the time i got off the freeway, went 1/4 mile down the ramp, all seemed to be well, and i went on down the road without issue. Even 40 miles home at 55 mph.
Now today, it did it again, at 55-65 after about 6 miles. Same thing. I pushed the clutch down, rapped it a time or 2, and the power came back but it still sounded funny.
Stopped at grocery store, shut it off for about 10 minutes, figured itd be fine after that. Fired it up and it was still doing it.
Got home and crawled underneath, the front cat was so hot i burned my hand, while the back one was cooler then a cup of coffee.
I also been smelling rotten eggs at warm idle if im outside the truck for a while now, but its gotten substantially worse lately. But theres still exhaust coming out the tailpipe.
Never had a cat plug...but does this sound like whats happenin?