Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 23:20:25 -0300
Reply-To: Jean-Guy Savoie <jgsavoie@NBNET.NB.CA>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Jean-Guy Savoie <jgsavoie@NBNET.NB.CA>
Subject: Re: Empty Cat. Converter
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Jason,
would the reference to "leaning left" be political comment? ;~)
JGS
----- Original Message -----
From: Jason Yasment <jyasment@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: Empty Cat. Converter
> My '84 Westy Californie Spec model has several
> differences....full cat, fuel filters both before and
> after pump, and a tendency to lean towards the left.
>
>
> --- Jean-Guy Savoie <jgsavoie@NBNET.NB.CA> wrote:
> > My 1984 1.9L Westy (Canadian model, bought in
> > Germany by a fly boy at the height of the clod war)
> > also has an empty cat. I had always assumed it had
> > been tampered with, but there is no sign of it. The
> > way they are made would make that a simple job, just
> > remove and hammer away with a chisel or steel rod of
> > sorts. I think that the fact it is empty makes it
> > noisier, it sort of rings. Bently shows the ceramic
> > insert??? Was ist dass?
> >
> > I suppose the question for the list members would
> > be: Does anyone have a cat with the insert intact?
> > Any difference between Canadian, American federal
> > and California?
> >
> > JGS
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Gary Stearns
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 8:46 AM
> > Subject: Empty Cat. Converter
> >
> >
> > I noticed in a post today asking about Stebro
> > exhausts a mention of a catalytic converter that
> > came from the factory "empty". I bought our '88
> > used in '93. It too had an empty catalyst. I
> > remember thinking that this was strange as I bought
> > the Vanagon from a VW dealer (they shouldn't let go
> > of it with a tampered emissions system right?), but
> > the converter showed no evidence of having been
> > forcefully reamed out. Since then I have seen
> > several other posts referring to empty cat. cons.
> > Do Vanagons mysteriously tempt tampering or did VW
> > actually sell them this way. Why? Was an empty
> > converter just a place to hang an O2 sensor? Was it
> > empty because our Vanagons are seen by the feds as
> > light trucks, not having to meet the same standards
> > as passenger cars?
> >
> > Gary
> >
>
>
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