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RV: 1999 Georgie Boy Cruise Master w/21000 miles. GM 454 ci engine
Traveling east on I-40 just west of Albuquerque when I lost so much power I couldn't climb the hill from the Rio Puerco. Towed to an rv park cg on Sunday and Monday morning I limped into Alb to see if I could get it fixed.
Turned out to be a badly plugged fuel filter that made the engine hot (this did not show on the temp gauge) and it destroyed the guts of both cat coverters. All the cat innards flowed downstream to the muffler and plugged it completely. If anyone runs into this large loss of power, recommend you have a mechanic shop put flow meter on the hard points to see if it has happened to you.
Mechanic said he'd been doing work on cars for 31 years and never ran across this.
Traveling east on I-40 just west of Albuquerque when I lost so much power I couldn't climb the hill from the Rio Puerco. Towed to an rv park cg on Sunday and Monday morning I limped into Alb to see if I could get it fixed.
Turned out to be a badly plugged fuel filter that made the engine hot (this did not show on the temp gauge) and it destroyed the guts of both cat coverters. All the cat innards flowed downstream to the muffler and plugged it completely. If anyone runs into this large loss of power, recommend you have a mechanic shop put flow meter on the hard points to see if it has happened to you.
Mechanic said he'd been doing work on cars for 31 years and never ran across this.
