I've been trying.. but i cant seem to get good leverage on them I will keep at it though.

 

if you get a couple off then and loosen the nut it might free it.... PITA i know....

 

ok... im now on day 4 or installing a ******* downpipe! 4 days! And i have tried for several hours to get the little pieces of metal bent away to get to the bolts that hold it on. I have tried everything i can think of short of sawing off the precat and taking a torch to the ******* bolts. The metal pieces are just too strong to move with even a screwdriver and hammer. Any ideas?



When i started this, and even up untill now, i wasnt very frustrated. Now im just pissed and want to take and axe to the car.

 

Relax grasshopper. You are water. The removal of the precat is stone. You are water wearing away stone. In time, you shall succeed.

 

I was able to unbend the tabs with a really big flat-bladed screwdriver. Just look for a good angle, wedge it between the nut and the tab, and twist. You might not have to get it all the way unbent in order to get a wrench on it. A socket will likely be harder to get on it if the tab is at all in the way, so try a wrench. Those nuts are really hard, but be careful not to round them off.

 

if all else fails do what any person not in their right mind would do.... take a 25 lb sledgehammer to the car

 

did you heat them at all? Cause these things dont want to move at all. i pried at them for like an hour and didnt move it at all.. even when i hit the screw driver with a hammer.

 

id just take it to a muffler shop to have it removed and replaced, too much time and effort if you are gonna take a sledgehammer to it

 

muahah, taste my pain. I worked at a muffler shop in IL for bout a year, that's how every car was that came in for exhaust work. ******* winter and salt.



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oxygen acetylene

 

a muffler shop wont take off my cat and replace it with my downpipe. They all bitch about it being illegal.