What did my truck poop out?

[Marsh99]

My truck has been running rough... I was working on it today, revved the motor, and boom! Potato gun like noise followed by thin black liquid draining out...Any ideas?Sorry for the pic size posted from my phone.

 

[STAG]

Looks like the guts of a catilytic converter

 

[RockMonkey]

Yup, that's the catalyst from your catalytic converter. It was plugging up your exhaust before it made its escape, and that's why it had no power. You probably had a rattle that has now disappeared.

 

[STAG]

A plugged up catalytic converter killed my sister's Mazda (ford) V6 two weeks after she bought it.

 

[MikeGyver]

The liquid was water (from combustion), it was black from all the carbon soot and cat dust.
New universal cats are cheap on ebay, get your welder ready.

 

[4554x4]

Your muffler has some more of this inside of it. You may be able to remove it and shake the rest out.

 

[Marsh99]

A plugged up catalytic converter killed my sister's Mazda (ford) V6 two weeks after she bought it.

Do I need to worried about internal motor damage?

 

[TRD270]

Looks like the guts of a catilytic converter

x2

I had this happen to me on my cherokee, I ended up having to cut up my exhaust from the cat back to get all the parts out

 

[Marsh99]

Today I pulled my exhaust off. I figured the easiest thing to do was cut the cat out. When I did that I saw the cat was completely clogged... So I went and bought a piece of exhaust to replace where the cat was for now. I will post some pics later.

 

[utah340six]

looked like cat poop.

 

[thefirstzukman]

Remember how I told you your cat was making noise and it might plug it up? That's why I won't run a cat on my rigs. Can leave you stranded at the worst time..

When we were driving home last week your exhaust sounded plugged but I figured it was just the tiny little tail pipe I could see. If your rig sounds like a vacuum when you are on the gas you have some back pressure.. Should run better now

 

[Marsh99]

Remember how I told you your cat was making noise and it might plug it up? That's why I won't run a cat on my rigs. Can leave you stranded at the worst time..

When we were driving home last week your exhaust sounded plugged but I figured it was just the tiny little tail pipe I could see. If your rig sounds like a vacuum when you are on the gas you have some back pressure.. Should run better now

Yeah I took your advice

 

[thefirstzukman]

Nice

 

[TRD270]

You'll have to let me know if you pass emissions with it off

 

[MikeGyver]

That's why I won't run a cat on my rigs. Can leave you stranded at the worst time..

So can anything else...
I'll never NOT run one due to the horrid smell alone.

 

[Marsh99]

You'll have to let me know if you pass emissions with it off

I will probably replace the cat this was just the quick fix.

 

[Raleigh]

If it were an '84 you could get away with it, but on an '85 you must have all factory emissions controls.