#TuesdayTip: This week is all about big puddles and your catalytic converter.
Let's paint you a picture. You are driving and it has been raining for a while. You enter a street you know has some hills and the drains have a tendency to clog with debris so the street starts to flood. You now see that there is a huge puddle that is covering up the lane that you are currently in on the street. You either: A) Drive through the puddle like it is nothing or B) slow down and merge over to the other lane and avoid that puddle?
If you choose B, then you picked the correct answer. But, do you know why you picked B other than not getting your car soaked? If yes then you can stop reading and admire our picture of a converter. If no it is because of #thermalshock.
What is that you are asking yourself? It is when an object (the converter) quickly changes its temperature and quickly expands or contracts. Two examples of this are when ice cubes crack when you put it into a glass of liquid, and your blood vessels contract when you go into cold water.
So, with all of this, you learn that a puddle can cause the material inside the converter to quickly shrink and causing it to fail. If this has happened to you then stop by #HoosierMuffler and talk with #LarryandJosh