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Old 03-10-2004, 05:47 PM
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threw that code today, said somthing about bank 1 catalyst running below threshold, i dunno what that means, is it anything to worry about, i erased it to turn off the light, but i was wondering if it was somthing that needed to be attended to or not?thanks
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cat by bank 1 -might be plugging--but definatly a cat --have you run any leaded gas in in I.E. "racegas" ?--i did with a 2 gals to 8 of 93 octane and it fried my cat--coated the o2 with lead
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yea, i ran 100 octane about 2 months aog, but it just came on today, car runs fine, not like the cats hav clogged or anything???
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yah but the o2 is either coated with lead or the cat has some plugging--i think it will just make it run real rich
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thanks man....ttt...any other thoughts guys??
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I have the same problem man..My is bank 2 (just today). Looks like our cars were compleated on lunch, during some Friday!...lol If your car has less than 80k on it, GM will put a new cat on it (called local dealer). I might just go with the LT's and cats...gives me a good excuse to drop another 1200 on my baby! Good luck!
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yea, just broke 80, ain't that some bullshit...lol ..i don't have the money to mod right now, guess ill just deal with it
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Originally Posted by HOSS
yea, just broke 80, ain't that some bullshit...lol ..i don't have the money to mod right now, guess ill just deal with it
I hear ya on that




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