There's no restriction or anything like that. The issue is the joint between the pipe and the cat. I'm hoping it can just be welded and I go on my merry way.

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06 E320 CDI "Rutherford", Black on Tan, 171k mi, Stage 1 tune, tuned TCU
91 300D "Otis", Smoke Silver, 142k mi, wastegate conversion

19 Honda CR-V EX 61k mi
Fourteen other MB's owned and sold
1961 Very Tolerant Wife

I replaced the cats on my GTO with straight pipes.

Do you have inspections there?

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Yeah....just failed it because of the exhaust.

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14 E250 Bluetec "Sinclair", Palladium Silver on Black, 153k miles
06 E320 CDI "Rutherford", Black on Tan, 171k mi, Stage 1 tune, tuned TCU
91 300D "Otis", Smoke Silver, 142k mi, wastegate conversion

19 Honda CR-V EX 61k mi
Fourteen other MB's owned and sold
1961 Very Tolerant Wife

Most likely vendors are ESW, Donaldson, or Johnson-Mathey. ESW is, I believe, a Canadian company so that might help. Great to have folks who are still in the biz.

Dan

Any one remember this Thread?


http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/open-discussion/201364-can-you-ship-cat.html

Charlie

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As it turned out, cat was fine....simply replaced all the piping between cat and muffler.

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14 E250 Bluetec "Sinclair", Palladium Silver on Black, 153k miles
06 E320 CDI "Rutherford", Black on Tan, 171k mi, Stage 1 tune, tuned TCU
91 300D "Otis", Smoke Silver, 142k mi, wastegate conversion

19 Honda CR-V EX 61k mi
Fourteen other MB's owned and sold
1961 Very Tolerant Wife

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OK one more cat pun

Glad to hear the "cat" has some more lives left.

You saved yourself some serious coin. Those things are expensive.

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2014 ML350 Bluetec (wife's DD)
2013 E350 Bluetec (my DD)

both my kids cars went to junkyard in 2023
2008 ML320 CDI (Older son’s DD) fatal transmission failure, water soaked/fried rear SAM, numerous other issues, just too far gone to save (165k miles)
2008 E320 Bluetec (Younger son's DD) injector failed open and diluted oil with diesel, spun main bearings (240k miles)

1998 E300DT sold to TimFreeh
1987 300TD sold to vstech

For future ref you can always citric flush it... Mine disappeared years ago much to the disgust of the cat thieves we have around here. Good reason *not* to have a truck or SUV. Makes it harder to sawzall it out.

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Or just tuck it up in the engine bay and wrap it, after the install the resonator after the cat could be easily mistaken for a normal converter. The fiberglass itchies act as a great theft deterrent too

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Good to know.

How did the inspector ascertain this? Was it apparent by just listening to the car idle, or is the inspection an underneath looksy by them?

Was the probable reason for the failure because of rusting through, i.e. the local environment there? Just wondering the possible of a failure @ just 73K miles?

Both sound and visual inspection....there were holes in the pipe.

The issue issue isn't mileage but time....15 years in New England will take a toll on an exhaust.

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14 E250 Bluetec "Sinclair", Palladium Silver on Black, 153k miles
06 E320 CDI "Rutherford", Black on Tan, 171k mi, Stage 1 tune, tuned TCU
91 300D "Otis", Smoke Silver, 142k mi, wastegate conversion

19 Honda CR-V EX 61k mi
Fourteen other MB's owned and sold
1961 Very Tolerant Wife

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