[gwblanke]

!997 dodge intrepid 3.5. Hard to start, have to depress throttle to about 1/4 throttle. When it starts the drivers side exhaust gets redhot within 2 minutes.It will not idle, any ideas?

 

[StandOnCliff]

Clogged catalytic converter most likely or somewhere else in the exhaust like the muffler or resonator.

 

[gwblanke]

Thank you. It appears that the catalytic converter came apart and went down and plugged the exhaust system. When another converter was installed no one checked the rest of the system.