RE: sulfur smell

[Shannon Fenton <sfenton@telegroup.com>]

That rasp is definately your cat. Mine started to do this and when I got it off
the honeycomb stuff had dislodged and was just floating around. Just ditch the
whole thing.






Thank You for Your Time,
        Shannon Fenton
            Ext. 2712
            sfenton@telegroup.com



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Date: 9/8/98 11:05 AM
To: Fenton, Shannon
From: Tovsen, Neal


Thanks for all the help, everyone! It's not hard to believe that the
cat/exhaust needs to be replaced. If I rev the engine when it is cold,
there is a rasp that sounds like a really bad set of glass-pack
mufflers. It goes away as the exhaust warms, so I was going to ignore it
for a while. The exhaust was on my list of performance mods...looks like
I'll have to move it up on the priority list!

Thanks again!

Neal

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-scirocco-L@scirocco.org
[mailto:owner-scirocco-L@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Mark A Peele
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 1998 9:09 AM
To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Re: sulfur smell


Normally, AFAIK, the sulphur smell is most pronounced when the converter
gets hotter (ever been behind a string of cat cars going up a long
grade?
- -  phew!)

I'd have to agree that it sounds like your cat has a prob.

Mark . . .
Scirocco 1982, Golf GT 1987
Previous Sciroccos: 1981S (RIP), 1980S, 1975TS, 1975
~Working~for~nothing~
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From: David LeDeaux <das@internetwork.net>
To: ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu, Scirocco List <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Subject: Re: sulfur smell
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 05:45:10 -0500
Message-ID: <199809080955.EAA03537@maggie.runt.net>

While I've never had it happen to me, I've heard that cars can smell
like
sulfer when the catalytic converter is clogged up or going bad... 

At 11:52 PM 9/7/98 -0500, Neal Tovsen wrote:
>OK...this is going to sound somewhat...well...odd:
>
>My car farts.
>
>With all seriousness, my '88 16V, which I've only owned
>about 3 weeks, occasionally lets loose a fairly strong
>sulfur (rotten-egg-like) smell. I have no idea what might be
>causing it, and the one time it happened while I was parked,
>I was unable to tell where it was coming from. I could smell
>it both inside and outside the car. This generally might
>happen once or twice a day, and seems to be completely
>random. It usually goes away completely within a minute or
>two. At first, I thought it might be other cars around me,
>but as the saying goes, "he who smelt it, dealt it."
>
>Granted, it is possible that my car is picking up on my own
>habits ;-), but I'd really like to hear some ideas from the
>list...if anyone has any. Could it be something wrong with
>the exhaust?
>
>TIA
>Neal
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