my bottom half of the heat shield broke off because of rust or whatever, my car is rattling so ****** bad that the top half is just rubbing on it... Am i able to take it off if i got under my car or do i have to take it to a shop?

 

You mean the one on the cat itself or the one on the chassis above the cat? The one on the chassis is just held on with 2 measly 10mm bolts and they tend to rust off. So yea, that's easy to take off.

 

I doubt its illegal. I wouldn't worry about it as if anyone did see that you didn't which would be hard for them to, I doubt anyone would care, including a cop.

 

you'd be surprised, im pretty sure that if you were to go see a california Ref, he would tell you to get a cover as a fire precaution. In NJ i dout you will have any problems.

whats with the sig Blk00?

 

Ah, it really depends on where you are.

 

I TRIED TO TAKE IT OFF... BUT THE ONE DAMN NUT IS RUSTED THAT I COULDNT TAKE IT OFF. IM JUST GONNA TAKE IT TO A MUFFLER SHOP AND HAVE THEM REMOVE IT. ITS TOO MUCH OF A HASSLE. THE TOP SHIELD IS VIBRATING AND IT IS ANNOYING!!!

 

What I use to do on the old Ford rangers is get a coathanger and wrap it tight as you can to hold it from vib'ing.

 

I don't have one.

 

use a grinder and grind off the bolt then yank the shield off

 

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Or, just remove the cat; remove the bolts that hold it on to the cat and than remove the one that is on the bottom of the chassi.

 

Sure, if he wants to do that, either way works. But he said the bolts were rusted so I'm offering the fastest solution..

 

Use PB Blaster on it, and a big pipe on the end of your socket wrench.

 

LOL how can he do that if the bolts are rusted off?

 

he didnt say it was rusted off, just rusted on. He might have a small chance of getting them off with bp blaster and a pipe if not, then he is going to have to cut them ether way.

 

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haha thas so ghetto i love it ... if you find a cop to get under your car to see if the cat has the heat shield ..... lemme know so i dont go there

 

no its not

 

If your sick of it vibrating just take some huge worm clamps and bam nomore rattle, thats what I used to do when i worked for honda that or rip it off...lol

 

Its as illegal as having sex w/o a condom I heard.....

 

My b i have a drinking problem and can not read sometimes.

 

screw two hose clamps together to make them longer and tie two of the clamps one and each end. need a total of 4 clamps

 

i couldnt get the bolts off my cat heat shield so i just crawled under the car and cut it off with tin snips. kind of a pain, you gotta cut by the bolts and by the o2 sensors. only took a few minutes though.

 

thanks for all the ideas fellas, is the CAT flammable? lets say if i rope tied it for a day or so? cause i need to make time to get to an exhaust shop to get that bad bot removed. its buggin the hell out of me!!!!!

 

in CA, it is not illegal to remove the heatshield from the cat...

i barred without one on mine...