>such as the catalytic converter it was forced on us to remove lead
>from exhaust when we had a choice of two type of gas, now we can
>only use unleaded gas but you still cannot remove it even though it
>is not needed any more.
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 I am neither an engineer, chemist, nor a mechanic. But, I don't
 believe that the purpose of a catalytic converter was/is to
 remove lead. The first car I had with one was a new 74 Malibu,
 the thing actually smelled up my whole garage. Like sulfur?
 The owners manual stated NOT to use leaded gas as it would ruin the
 converter. That is why they had that plug to prevent using the larger
 nozzles on the leaded gas pumps. At that time they said a converter's
 life expectancy was 50k miles. A replacement was around $200 ? If the
 purpose was to remove lead why would the company say not to use it?
 Why two size nozzles, and why the plug in the filler neck????
 They did have an initial problem. The converters were extremely
 hot. The first ones started fires if parked on a lawn, while
 still hot. €
 Of course back then Scanners used crystals, to not stray to
 far off topic....
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