Marc, I'd remove the Catalytic/Muffler assembly at the collector where both exhaust manifolds attach. That way you can get at all the bolts and replace the ones at the collector, too. A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
>From: marc milobinski <marcmilo@YAHOO.COM> >Reply-To: marc milobinski <marcmilo@YAHOO.COM> >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >Subject: replacing catalytic converter >Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 12:55:30 -0800 > >I need to replace the catalytic converter on my 81 >air-cooled.....looked under there yesterday and it is >a pain to get to the top bolts. The fact that the >bolts are rusted solid doesn't help things. Any words >of advise? > >Thanks. >marc > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com |
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