Whats a clogged cat conv. look like?

[zccop2001]

I took mine off, just to make sure i was capable of doin it, and it looks ok..

i mean i do smell eggs when i drive at higher rpms, but looking at the cat, yea the outside is rusted to hell. but i can see threw it ( a little) and it doenst look too bad.. and when i shake it it doesnt rattle.. and the fences on each side look good..

could it still be clogged? and make my car sluggish?

[Shadly]

If it's off, turn it so the front end is facing down. Now shake it. If crap falls out, it's bad.

[zccop2001]

nothing came out, the screens were in place..

i ordered a new one.. cause a few weeks ago it was makin that terriable egg smell

[Original 4th Gen V6]

I knew mine was bad because it rattled on the car (when I shook it off the car everything inside moved around and I could barely see through it). When I got my new catco highflow cat I could see through it very easily. Hope this is of some help.

[knowledgefreak]

when it is bright red glowing under your car, you know it is clogged.

[TurboProject]

Mine was clogged once, I could hear things shaking around while the engine was running, when I took it off I saw that a big chunck had broken lose and was 1/2 way protruding through the exit hole nearly compleatly closing it off(the car wasn't running because it was so clogged). Those "screens" you're seeing are actually part or the entirety of the guts of the cat. The inside of the cat is one soild piece of material that has tiny square shapped passages arrainged in a grid that travel from one side of the cat to the other that the exhaust has to squeez its way through.