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Date:         Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:57:07 -0400
Reply-To:     Roger Sisler <rogersisler2000@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Roger Sisler <rogersisler2000@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Lots of white smoke from exhaust - gone

I had a Vanagon sit for a year,once. When I started it up, the rear bumper got so hot it could not be touched.The engine sounded and felt like it was choked up.Maybe a plugged up catalytic converter. The Vanagon had run good before sitting,though.

I shut it down and was going to drop the muffler next morning.

Next morning the Vanagon ran fine again. No evidence of a plugged up whatever. I think what happened was that a mouse built a nest inside the muffler and the twiggs,grass and such needed to literally burn before the plug went away.


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