Exhaust restricted?

Tiny
BOLTSTEEL
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  • 1996 DODGE RAM
  • V8
  • 2WD
  • AUTOMATIC
  • 200,000 MILES
What can cause you not to hear the exhaust when the truck is running and also cause it to cut off
Monday, April 26th, 2010 AT 5:17 PM

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Tiny
KASEKENNY
  • MECHANIC
  • 18,907 POSTS
This sounds like a converter issue. Here are a number of guides that will help with explaining this, how to test it, and how to replace it:

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/bad-catalytic-converter-symptoms

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/how-to-test-a-catalytic-converter

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/catalytic-converter-replacement

Please see the attached info from the manual that will show how to replace the converter.

Please run through this info and let us know if you have questions. Thanks
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