RE: [DML] Oil Light

["Joseph Kuchan" <josephkuchan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Luis,

Was your cat REALLY hot, i.e. glowing red and/or emitting creaking, 
snapping, ticking, or popping sounds, or giving off any smells before the 
oil hit it? If not you are probably OK. If you experienced any of these 
symptoms, then for some reason you may be running extremely rich to the 
point where combustion is finishing in the exhaust system. Cats will glow 
red hot if they are receiving unburned fuel in the exhaust stream which then 
burns inside the cat itself. In cases like that internal damage to the cat 
usually occurs.

-Joe Kuchan

>This leads me to another question.  While adding oil, I had spilled
>some onto the Cat - a fire started due to this, fortuneately it did
>not do any damage, other than scare me to death!  I had run the car
>for approximately 15-20 minutes, a co-worker thought that something
>was wrong because the cat was that hot - is he correct?
>
>Thanks for the help!
>
>Luis
>3723

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