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My hands are shot! Bloody blistered mess! Both of us (my hubbie and me), decided to gut the cat on the 'bird today.. (he did it on his car 2 years ago, so I figured it would be a piece of cake, right?) WRONG! Augh.. Did ford have to make the most obnoxious and curvy downpipe ever?! The damn curve right after the stock (WHICH IS WELDED ON! what the hell is up with that!?) cat, leading to the "catback" exhaust makes it damn near impossible to do a thorough job on this thing. Not only is there the honeycomb material, but there's mountains of spongy indestructible metal mesh crap! This stuff sucks!!! No amount of fabrication of strange hook-like devices can pull these things out, at least not the ones furthest away from the only access to the damn catalytic. I now have a catalytic with about 1/3 of it's contents, and I'm about ready to slap the thing back on the car, and be angry until I can afford a 3" downpipe. I hate Ford. The only damn thing that they make that's indestructible on the fricking car is the inside of the catalytic. If they would have spent 1/8 of the effort they put into that stupid thing, instead on the electrical system, our cars would be worth TEN TIMES what they're worth in the blue book now. BAH!
*rant rant rant* I'm going to go cry now and try to repair my mangled hands.
Here's a run down of all the crap we've had to try and use to bloody our hands, *oops*, I mean gut the catalytic.
A 3/8" thick 14 inch long Titanium-tipped Drill Bit, rubber mallet, crowbar, screw driver the size of a broom, dremel with flexible shaft, shaft extension taped to some kind of shelf bracket which was bent at a 45* angle as a strange drilling contraption. Three devoured dremel bits, more shelf extensions curved into hook type grabby things, 2 and 1/4 ton jack handle, vice grips, 2 or 3 assorted pliers, and a frikking partridge in a pear tree. All of the above are completely destroyed and what's left over of the catalytic is basically laughing at both of us.
Catalytic-1,
Us-0,
this is not the end!!!
Alright, I think my husband's gone insane.. We're going to go hack the damn thing off, I think. I'll be back later if I still have nubs left over to type.
-Amy-
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1987 Red Thunderbird Turbo Coupe
Been in the family since I was 6 and I've been telling my dad since then that it's my car.
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mods - K&N Cone filter
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*rant rant rant* I'm going to go cry now and try to repair my mangled hands.
Here's a run down of all the crap we've had to try and use to bloody our hands, *oops*, I mean gut the catalytic.
A 3/8" thick 14 inch long Titanium-tipped Drill Bit, rubber mallet, crowbar, screw driver the size of a broom, dremel with flexible shaft, shaft extension taped to some kind of shelf bracket which was bent at a 45* angle as a strange drilling contraption. Three devoured dremel bits, more shelf extensions curved into hook type grabby things, 2 and 1/4 ton jack handle, vice grips, 2 or 3 assorted pliers, and a frikking partridge in a pear tree. All of the above are completely destroyed and what's left over of the catalytic is basically laughing at both of us.
Catalytic-1,
Us-0,
this is not the end!!!
Alright, I think my husband's gone insane.. We're going to go hack the damn thing off, I think. I'll be back later if I still have nubs left over to type.
-Amy-
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1987 Red Thunderbird Turbo Coupe
Been in the family since I was 6 and I've been telling my dad since then that it's my car.
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mods - K&N Cone filter
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1987 Red Thunderbird Turbo Coupe
Been in the family since I was 6 and I've been telling my dad since then that it's my car.
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mods - K&N Cone filter, gutted catalytic, Star Clutch Stage II
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Been in the family since I was 6 and I've been telling my dad since then that it's my car.
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mods - K&N Cone filter, gutted catalytic, Star Clutch Stage II
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