RE: gut the cat.

[Aaron <catacomb@psu.edu>]

>same flanges as the CAT, so I'd guess there is no technical reason for not
>gutting the cat.  Might be a bit noisier though.
>
>HTH,
>
>Ewan Hopkins
>>Has anyone gutted their cat.?   I have an 84 8V, and 
>>the cat is falling apart from the inside out 
>>(lots of rattling).  

I think my problem now goes beyond the cat.  
Not only can I not get the bolts out of the flanges, but I can now hear
rattling in the muffler, and the connecting pipe between the cat and the
muffler.

I believe the honeycomb has gotten all over inside the exhaust.

These flange bolts are drivng me crazy.  They aren't copper, as expected.
They are some kind of hardened metal.  I broke two drill bits (cobalt bits
none-the-less) and went through three fiberglass reinforced cut-off discs
on a rotary cutter.

I eventually cut the nuts and bolt-heads off, but I still can't drill
through, or punch out the bolt shaft from the cat. flanges.

This is really annoying.

-Aaron 
84 8V

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