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You can clean off the carbon off the face and inside the honeycomb, but the noble medals will come off too rendering in useless. The air will flow thru it again and make the engine run better, but it will not pass emissions. Only clean it if you want to save welding a pipe in it's place. Otherwise chop it off and install a cheap universal cat or pipe in its place.
What else can I help you with?
How can you clean a catalytic converter?
You cannot clean it. If it is clogged it must be replaced.
How can you clean the catalytic converter when it is clogged?
It can't be cleaned, just replaced and recycled.
Can you clean catalytic converter while on the car?
No, if it is clogged the only fix is to replace it.
How do you repair a clogged catalytic converter?
You repair a clogged catalytic converter by replacing it. A catalytic converter works by having unburned gasoline or some other substance touch a metallic catalyst such as platinum or rhodium. When the catalytic metal becomes covered over with garbage it stops working. When it stops converting the garbage to carbon dioxide and water, the small holes in it then become clogged. Then it will not let exhaust gasses pass though. No way exists to clean out a catalytic converter. They can only be taken apart and the substance used as raw material to create a new metallic catalyst. You can drive fast and blow the dirt off!
How do you clean a catalytic converter?
You don't. You replace it.
What device helps clean car exhaust?
The catalytic converter.
1995 Chevy lumina and it won't drive over 50 mph What could be the problem?
Clean the MAF sensor with CRC MAF cleaner. Check the airfilter. Check for a clogged catalytic converter.
What are catalytic converters and where are they found?
A Catalytic Converter is used to clean the fumes of the exhaust emmisions coming out of a motorised vehicle.
Can you clean a catalytic converter for a 99 grand am se?
Cleaning a catalytic converter to reset an error code is only a temporary solution for a 1999 Grand Am SE. To clean the catalytic converter in this case you would need to gently blow out any build up with an air compressor. You would also need to replace or clean the oxygen sensor as well or the code will not reset.
The function of a catalytic converter is primarily to?
Help clean up vehicles exhaust emissions.
What vans have a cataytic converter?
Most if not all vans built after 1980s have a catalytic converter. They serve to clean the exhaust of compound greenhouse gasses.
A device used to clean exhaust gases before they exit an automobile's tailpipe is called?
Catalytic converter.
