[Vwdiesel] No diesel - melted cat!

[Area31 Research Facility]

This must be a common problem in Iraq.  Plugged catalytic converters.  Over 
there the fly-by-night auto mechanics pack them with explosives to clear a 
path for the exhaust.  Unfortunately they consistently use way too much 
dynamite and end up destroying the whole car and innocent bystanders. 
Someone ought to do something about that.  Maybe round them all up, arrest 
them for shoddy automobile repairs that have endangered lives and enroll 
them in an automobile mechanics school.  Let `em wreck a car and then not 
let them leave with a diploma until they have restored the car as good as 
new.  Frankly, I haven`t heard of any better ideas.

As for your car, just one stick ought to do it.  Make sure the windows are 
all rolled down. ;)

Rob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mikitka" <mikitka at embarqmail.com>
To: <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] No diesel - melted cat!


> What are you trying to accomplish? Just to be able to open up the cat? You
> would be better just removing the whole thing and putting in a test pipe
> until you can get a new one. If you torched it already then it wouldn't 
> pass
> inspection because it is evident it was tampered with but if that isn't an
> issue then cut the whole bottom out and pull out the insides and weld the
> bottom back on. That should work, or just put a replacement pipe instead 
> of
> doing all that work.
> Nick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com] On
> Behalf Of jonathan hoehl
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 12:09 PM
> To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Subject: [Vwdiesel] No diesel - melted cat!
>
> Wanted to post this here because I've always seen great ideas - 1993 VR6
> Passat catalytic converter insides melted together, so no flow.  Cut a 
> hole
> in the backside just before running torch out of oxygen.  Drilled three
> 3/8ths all the way thru ceramic so there's some flow.  Best we could do -
> smoked the drill.  Tried electric hammer drill with steel bar (I know, bad
> on the head pipe) but that didn't do anything.  Drove car hard (very loud!
> sorry neighbors) and sprayed the garden hose inside the hole in cat - 
> didn't
>
> seem to help break-things-up any...
>
> Any Great Ideas?
>
> Jon
>
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