A shop can remove a cat to do work, but they must put it back. Since it is
illegal for a vehicle to not have a cat, a shop cannot remove the cat
without replacing it.
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From: Glenn S. Wiltse
To: dakota
Subject: Re: Dual Exhaust for 93 Dakota
Date: Tuesday, September 10, 1996 7:35AM
This sounds pretty odd to me. What if the converter was bad, or you
just simply had to breifly remove the part of the exaust where the converter
is, to acomplish some other task... I don't know cause I never tried
anything like this, or that, but your description of the situation seems
a bit too restrictive...
On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Jane V Elliott wrote:
> My understanding is that a shop that performs work on a vehicle to be
> operated on the street that removes an emission component like the cat is
> in violation of the law. In order to put 2 cats on it along with 2 O2
> sensors would require the vehicle to be recertified which would cost about
> $50K or more. Unless you have tubing benders and can do all the work
> yourself, which is probably still illegal, you're likely to have a really
> hard time finding a shop that'd even talk to you.
>
> It's a Federal EPA reg, so it probably doesn't matter unless you live
> someplace with stricter requirements. But you can LEGALLY put a 3" cat
> back on it which will flow as much or more than a 2 1/4" dual exhaust.
> Also don't know where there'd be room for two mufflers under there as the
> gas tank occupies the muffler space on the left side.
>
> Larry Elliott, '92, 3.9, 4x4, 5 sp'd, LE
>
>
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