Re: [DML] Catalytic converter glows

[Martin Gutkowski <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Your engine is over-fuelling, and from what you describe it's more than 
just a failed lambda sensor. Difficult to remote-diagnose but I'd hazard 
a guess that one of the injectors is stuck open. What's the condition of 
the fuel tank? Everything nice and clean?

Martin

On 26/08/2011 19:44, gerenpreiss wrote:
> I had not run my Delo for 4 weeks. I usually run it every 2 weeks for 30 minutes. This time it took about 10 tries to get it running. It would start and run for few seconds then die. When it started to run,
> It run very rough. After 20 minutes the catalytic converter started to glow red. Does anybody have an idea what could be wrong?
>
> Gatis
> 5791



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