Ranger_Rickster
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- Joined
- Nov 7, 2011
- Messages
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- Location
- Papillion Nebraska
- Vehicle Year
- 1998
- Make / Model
- Ford
- Engine Size
- 3.0
- Transmission
- Manual
Symptoms crept up all the sudden on long trip home from eastern Wisconsin all the back to Omaha 9-10 hours drive. was fine for the first 4 hours on 2 lane highways at 60mph. Then into Iowa going 70-72mph in 5th in the long hills in 5th giving it more gas but sometimes dropping speed 65-60 depending on how steep it has always done this since i owned it but not this bad. had windows down and reaching half-way up most hills would start feeling a ton of heat radiating up from underneath the truck blowing in, and truck would smell like hot burning metal, unburnt fuel, and little later on started to get a weird rotten smell, not like egg, but a faint sulfur-ish smell.
My first immediate thought was cat plugged or clogged or partially!!! got out and looked several times, never was glowing red hot, but might be only well it is acting up. NO CEL at all!
Truck has 152,000 on it now
Entire exhaust system is original, my father owned ever since it was 1 year old. he never touched it.
Exhaust does a tinny, very slight rattle too it, always has, cat heat shields are bad and have large hose clamps on them to quiet them.
I am renting a back pressure gauge on friday to confirm. Will post my findings and wether i decide to fix it, or maybe look at getting a new truck soon.
(Poor truck, I love it, but it has slowly been starting to nickel and dime me and the wife. Just spent $250 doing leaf spring shackles and hangers and shocks all the way around plus all the numerous things before that) Might as well have a payment, and a brand new slightly bigger truck and not be spending so much time in the garage, even though i do like that, but i have my fun car for that!!
My first immediate thought was cat plugged or clogged or partially!!! got out and looked several times, never was glowing red hot, but might be only well it is acting up. NO CEL at all!
Truck has 152,000 on it now
Entire exhaust system is original, my father owned ever since it was 1 year old. he never touched it.
Exhaust does a tinny, very slight rattle too it, always has, cat heat shields are bad and have large hose clamps on them to quiet them.
I am renting a back pressure gauge on friday to confirm. Will post my findings and wether i decide to fix it, or maybe look at getting a new truck soon.
(Poor truck, I love it, but it has slowly been starting to nickel and dime me and the wife. Just spent $250 doing leaf spring shackles and hangers and shocks all the way around plus all the numerous things before that) Might as well have a payment, and a brand new slightly bigger truck and not be spending so much time in the garage, even though i do like that, but i have my fun car for that!!