Plastic exhaust box in engine well

Asked by Bradley1950 Aug 14, 2020 at 06:39 PM about the 2001 Saturn S-Series 3 Dr SC2 Coupe

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

My car keeps idling high when started and dies
while driving. It has a plastic box in left front of
engine well that exhaust was venting to. It has
melted.

3 Answers

F_O_R answered 4 years ago

Whatever the box is (probably the air intake) it is not an exhaust box. You must have an exhaust leak.

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Peter answered 4 years ago

you have a fan/air pump that is there to feed air in to the exhaust if that has melted the valve and the air pump will need to be replaced

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