Nick1994
$100 site donor 2024
This is on my dad's 2007 Toyota FJ Cruiser. 4.0L 6 speed manual. About 111k miles
He has for several years expected the catalytic converters were plugged on his FJ. Low power, it is pretty gutless! It does somewhat ok if you get on it really hard high up in the RPMs but it has always been so gutless. Driving up mountains gives off the classic rotten egg smell, bad! He called me today and said he finally got around to cutting them off, he said you almost couldn't see through them looking at the sun. He showed a mechanic at work and he said they were toast. My dad pounded the internals out and welded the catalytic converters back on and said it is a night and day difference, loads of power!
I'll have to see it myself. I'll drive it tomorrow (he lives out of town).
What can cause this? It's been like this for years. It calls for premium gas and he usually runs 87, but sometimes springs for 91 octane. He also drives it like a granny usually and short trips it. But it does get warmed up often on longer drives.
Anything he can do to prevent it from happening again? Everything on it is original. It is due for spark plugs.
He has for several years expected the catalytic converters were plugged on his FJ. Low power, it is pretty gutless! It does somewhat ok if you get on it really hard high up in the RPMs but it has always been so gutless. Driving up mountains gives off the classic rotten egg smell, bad! He called me today and said he finally got around to cutting them off, he said you almost couldn't see through them looking at the sun. He showed a mechanic at work and he said they were toast. My dad pounded the internals out and welded the catalytic converters back on and said it is a night and day difference, loads of power!
I'll have to see it myself. I'll drive it tomorrow (he lives out of town).
What can cause this? It's been like this for years. It calls for premium gas and he usually runs 87, but sometimes springs for 91 octane. He also drives it like a granny usually and short trips it. But it does get warmed up often on longer drives.
Anything he can do to prevent it from happening again? Everything on it is original. It is due for spark plugs.