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On Friday we received the last piece of the Camry's exhaust system to allow me to change out the cat converters. The "Money Light" has been on for too long. Changed out the sensors a while back but the code returned and the light came back on. This is the four-banger, exhaust manifold has the first converter as part of it. Collector has the second one attached with a flex-pipe and a two-bolt flange at each end. Looked like a simple one or two hour task... HA!
There are three pieces of heat shield attached to the manifold/converter, brackets on the cat with threaded tabs to attach the shields. NONE of the six tabs on the new manifold lined up with the holes in the sheet-metal. Brackets at the base had a slightly different angle than the original, four 10MM x 1.50 bolts holding the base to the block via 90° brackets. Much fettling with hammer, die grinder, profane utterances, before it could be mounted satisfactorily. Then it was fighting rusted fasteners on the old parts to remove studs and bolts to reattach the new center piece to the collector. All the threaded fasteners I've got around here and not ONE 10MM x 1.50 stud suitable for the task. Weasel Pee and a ½" air impact got one stud from the old manifold collector, it seemed to have been cross-threaded on install. Ran a die over that, removed the other with a sprag socket and wound both in the new collector. In all it took the better part of seven hours to get it all aligned and back together. So far no Check Engine light, no trouble codes.
Gonna have to learn some Japanese profanities, I guess. :highly_amused:
There are three pieces of heat shield attached to the manifold/converter, brackets on the cat with threaded tabs to attach the shields. NONE of the six tabs on the new manifold lined up with the holes in the sheet-metal. Brackets at the base had a slightly different angle than the original, four 10MM x 1.50 bolts holding the base to the block via 90° brackets. Much fettling with hammer, die grinder, profane utterances, before it could be mounted satisfactorily. Then it was fighting rusted fasteners on the old parts to remove studs and bolts to reattach the new center piece to the collector. All the threaded fasteners I've got around here and not ONE 10MM x 1.50 stud suitable for the task. Weasel Pee and a ½" air impact got one stud from the old manifold collector, it seemed to have been cross-threaded on install. Ran a die over that, removed the other with a sprag socket and wound both in the new collector. In all it took the better part of seven hours to get it all aligned and back together. So far no Check Engine light, no trouble codes.
Gonna have to learn some Japanese profanities, I guess. :highly_amused:
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