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Mar 31, 2011 | 08:53 PM

madfrog

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kill da cat

95 f250 5.8L 2x4.....i live in a non emissions county and I caint get one muffler shop to cut out my cat and put strait pipes on....what the crap! guess i will have to do it myself. 02 sensor is before the cat, so i shouldn't have any problems......correct?

Mar 31, 2011 | 09:43 PM

BRay09

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well it is a $10,000 fine for any shop to ttake off a cat converter SO no, they wont do it. N yes yu'll be fine

Mar 31, 2011 | 09:53 PM

GHeTTo JOe

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cut it off yourself and take er in to get new pipe

Mar 31, 2011 | 10:06 PM

KevinGnWV

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cut it off yourself and take er in to get new pipe

We have a muffler shop here that still won't touch it. If they suspect it's been punched out, same thing.

Mar 31, 2011 | 10:16 PM

86F150302

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I cut all mine off myself and then take it to the exhaust shop. I got $140 for the cats at scrap yard and had the exhaust done for $140.

Mar 31, 2011 | 11:33 PM

Hotshot869

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Our muffler shop here cut my cat off without question...haha

Apr 1, 2011 | 08:45 AM

IowanStraight6

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We have a muffler shop here that still won't touch it. If they suspect it's been punched out, same thing.

trailer it there take off the liscence plates and say its for off road use only then see what they say bet itll get done

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Apr 1, 2011 | 09:07 PM

IowanStraight6

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get er done then

Apr 1, 2011 | 10:04 PM

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madfrog

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if the power company would hurry up and hook up power at my shop, i will just cut and weld and be done with it...thanks for the info. Iowanstraight6, u in muscatine?

Apr 1, 2011 | 11:15 PM

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KevinGnWV

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get er done then

Mine aren't plugged

Apr 1, 2011 | 11:22 PM

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CJM8515

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Dont even take it off, hollow it out-does the same thing.

Apr 2, 2011 | 07:39 AM

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IowanStraight6

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if the power company would hurry up and hook up power at my shop, i will just cut and weld and be done with it...thanks for the info. Iowanstraight6, u in muscatine?

nope north in a little town called lake mills

and i hollowed out my my second cat and last night at wot it made a loud buzzing noise than a rattle thought i blew the tranny