How did it go,

@@writtenpieceopaper1 It worked. Just got my emissions done today. Passed with flying colors where last year I barely passed.

Update! It worked, did my emissions today and passed with flying colors where last year the truck barely passed. Had to drive it for a while before the smell of vinegar left the exhaust but it works.

@nickburbach5811 thank you so much for the update. I decided to replace them after all because I couldn't restore flow to one side (my jeep wrangler has 4 cats not 2). I left mine soaking in water and soap, water, and water with 5% bleach a day each. One side flowed water much better but the other side, I couldn't even push a shop vacuum air the same even with slight improvement. That side had thick white rust build up that may have been just the substrate falling apart/ melted (that cat did have some chunks missing). HOWEVER, I'm soaking the oxygen sensors since they were fouled by the silicone on the lower intake gasket rtv / coolant leak on one side (the melty side). A few hours and the white stuff was flaking off the inside too. I read that oxalic acid and citric acid restore up to 95% of catalytic converter. Vinegar is a weak ish acid right? So maybe that's why it works so well.

U r welcome my friend.! Hey tha'ts what life is all about.! People helping people.! 👍

The large surface area once oil coated will trap particulates though.

Did you reinstall them and no code or problems?

Yes. That is also a Trucker Dave approved method.

Thank, you

Thank, you.👍

true, but then, good luck on its emission

That sounds better than what this guy is doing.

Dont you have to use lacquer tinner with dilution with water. Can’t put it pure?

They do that on diesel engines. The first generation emission systems just reburn the exhaust inside the catalyst. The problem with doing that is it just comes down to heat. If you tried doing that with a gas-powered car he'll most likely catch it on fire. I'm of the opinion that cleaner exhaust starts at the fuel end rather than the exhaust end. Cleaner fuel and a properly tuned engine will cut your exhaust output drastically. Story nobody likes to tell, it's back in the old days when I was a kid and we had emissions checks, and cars burning leaded gas, if you were to keep them properly tuned up you could blow cleaner than a new car today. The best way I have found to deal with emissions is to treat it at the source. Catalytic converters are designed to deal with the waste so if you cut the waist down drastically, you'll get a more efficient burn in the catalytic converter

yup, vwry well said sir, its much better to fixed the cause rather than just the after effect

Trust me, I understand.

Yes, I can reuse them if I wish. I don't have anything I can use them on at the moment. These came off my brother's GT Mustang but if I need them on any dual exhaust setup, they would work. They're not car specific in their General application.

Because all the minerals in tap water will reattach themselves to the Catalyst after you use the vinegar to remove them. It sounds weird but that's why. The tap water is full of minerals that will get hung up and stuck in the catalyst system. It doesn't seem like a big deal but it's just an extra step to keep extra particulates out of your Catalyst after you spent all that time cleaning it

I rinse well with water.. soak overnight in acetone... Rinse well with water... Dry with a blow dryer... Code went away.... 3 years ago.. still running strong and code free

Did you try it or only you watched the video on youtube

I'm gonna use a rod and a hammer 😅😅😅

Destroys the matrix

Yes but you have to rinse it thoroughly with distilled water

@@truckerdaveandred6731 what about patrol diesel and acid for cleaning catalytic converter????

@@yaqoobansari738 you should never use anything flammable because you will burn your car down

@@truckerdaveandred6731 that's really very helpful and great information for me. Thank you so much 🌹🌹🌹

I would suppose you could try it. There are many different ways to clean these. on our semi trucks we do have a process where we do boil them in a homemade solution of dawn dish soap and some other stuff I can't remember. A lot of guys also will bake these and then clean them out with compressed air. The purpose of the distilled water is to make sure there's no minerals or anything that would reattach itself to the metals inside the converter. I guess to break it down into simplest terms, using non-flammable cleaner and the cleanest nonmeneralized water you can get a hold of. I suppose if you had a Boiling Pot of distilled water, like a turkey fryer, I'm sure it would work fine but I'm not sure it would do any better than just rinsing. It would be interesting to find out though if it does

Carbon is carbon. It will work. I actually got this trick from a guy who worked at Cummings. You just have to make sure you use distilled water to flush it. He was very firm about that

@@truckerdaveandred6731 You can not clean Carbon and oil with vinegar, the water in the bucket showed it, clean water 😃

I agree....your right. Mechanic or shop do that shit here in california 😂

Carp cleaner sounds fishy

@@robertrose3068 carb cleaner or any cleaning agency does it work for cleaning catalytic converters

I like my creeper

That's a big Tumblr. Put it in the freezer overnight and it'll be epic

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🤣🤣 done and done!

That'll destroy the precious metals inside the catalytic converter and probably cause a fire if not thoroughly rinsed.

@truckerdaveandred6731 can't find anything that would say it's unsafe. Never tried it. Figured it could be safe. I can see it being a hazard if it wasn't done properly. Right on, man. Thanks for the comment!

@@brettservin4395 there are a lot of different ways that it is done but most of these commercial places have the proper equipment to do it safely. Just doing it in your driveway like I'm doing, and like most everybody else, this is been the safest way I found to do it. And this why doesn't damage any of the internals, it just removes the carbon from the inside of the Catalyst and leave the clean surface

@@truckerdaveandred6731 cool man. I'll do that. Thanks.

Upstream o2 hole maybe ...

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