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Just to throw it out there because I see it every now and then. Just the act of adding fuel alone will NOT make a catalytic converter glow, engines add more fuel (on gasoline engines anyway) to cool off the exhaust, which works until a misfire happens... when the engine misfires from a broken spark plug or bad plug wire or similar an unburnt air fuel mixture is pushed into the catalyst which is running at say 1000F normally which will ignite the air fuel mixture and over time (minutes) melt the catalyst(s) into a blob of ceramic goo. If it was a gaseous fuel system like propane or natural gas adding fuel will definitely push the cat into thermal overload, but on gasoline it starts cooling with more fuel than stoicheometric
Back to your regularly scheduled troubleshooting . Best of luck, I do agree with everything else above
Back to your regularly scheduled troubleshooting . Best of luck, I do agree with everything else above