plstokes
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My BIL just bought a 1996 motorhome with a 454 TBI engine. The previous owner has not used it for about a year, he cranked it up ever so often but has not ran it down the road.
The problem: The thing has no power, it's very sluggish on take off and spits and sputters, and when it is idling it kind of smells like it is running rich. We were thinking bad fuel so we put some fresh gas in it and some lucas fuel treatment/injector cleaner and headed home. As fast as we could get the thing on the interstate was about 60 and it only dropped in OD once or twice, but any hill would drop us back down to 45 or 50 easy. About 30 miles into the trip home we stopped to check things out and noticed from the catilytic converter down past muffler was glowing orange.
What do y'all think might be the problem??? Clogged converter maybe?? I'm sure normal maintinance needs to be done like air filter and such but I don't think that would casuse that drastic of a problem.
The problem: The thing has no power, it's very sluggish on take off and spits and sputters, and when it is idling it kind of smells like it is running rich. We were thinking bad fuel so we put some fresh gas in it and some lucas fuel treatment/injector cleaner and headed home. As fast as we could get the thing on the interstate was about 60 and it only dropped in OD once or twice, but any hill would drop us back down to 45 or 50 easy. About 30 miles into the trip home we stopped to check things out and noticed from the catilytic converter down past muffler was glowing orange.
What do y'all think might be the problem??? Clogged converter maybe?? I'm sure normal maintinance needs to be done like air filter and such but I don't think that would casuse that drastic of a problem.