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Can someone explain interaction of the Secondary Air Injection System and the Catalytic Converter

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Old 06-24-2003, 09:50 AM
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Default Can someone explain interaction of the Secondary Air Injection System and the Catalytic Converter

Does one affect the other? If one goes bad, does the other?
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Default 2nd air injection pumps extra air into the exhaust side when the car is cold

it helps speed up emissions cleansing because the cat is not up to temp
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Default It's also to compensate for the overly rich cold idle...

if not for the SAI pump, the cats would freak trying to clean that rich exhaust.
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Default Ding ding ding....

that is the reason (or one of) why I've been chasing my FREAKING RICH condition. My air pump is wigging out and not pumping enough air.

But no one in Bentley does it mention this. You really have to know how systems work and what they do and why they do it sometimes to do proper diagnosis.
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Default On my 98.5 the SAI will run even after the engine has been on for a while...

happens in the fall and winter a lot.. Dunno if it's supposed to or not, but it seems 'happy', and no MIL..
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Default Rob, how did you diagnose that the SAI was not operating up to spec?

I'm kind of following your lead w/ my rich condition (hope you don't mind). Anyway to do this other than a dealer trip? Thx,

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So could i rerout this to pump air into the intake?
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