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• Jetta Conversion: Exhaust Bracket Redo PICS. Questions
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 2 Sep 2011 16:36:54 -0700
  ...https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-B3Ackj_sCv0/TmFksnl8nQI/AAAAAAAAFQk/mSo_eDxjDVU/s720/CatToEngineBracket3.jpg https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ZzZuC7hDB7A/TmFktSlhRyI/AAAAAAAAFQs/pCpXKMPq25A/s720/CatToEngineBracket1.jpg...
• Re: Jetta Conversion: Exhaust Bracket Redo PICS. Questions
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 2 Sep 2011 19:10:51 -0700
  ...I'd clamp the cat to it. FAS attaches the cat to a bracket. They've done more swaps than me so doing this...
• exhaust gasket advice?
  Historical mailing list - Fred Brittain
  Fri, 2 Apr 1999 17:12:17 EST
  Yo Vanagoneers, I just tried to repair an exhaust leak on my 89 between the cat and the muffler. Was going to use some...
• Re: cats and campers
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:40:11 -0600
  ...cats and campers > Cats travel very well as cat skin hats, their tails look nice on your > antennae, properly tanned with suction cups applied...
• Re: MOUSE PROBLEMS-world greats mouse trap
  Historical mailing list - Mark Hineline
  Tue, 23 Jun 1998 11:00:33 -0700
  Or you could keep a cat or two. My cats decimated the population of mice, voles, rats, and most of the snakes for a...
• CATs in CA in 2009 = more expen$ive ??
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Wed, 3 Sep 2008 12:16:50 -0400
  Beginning in 2009 aftermarket CAT sales in California will be more restrictive due to tighter guidelines. If you live in California, you may want...
• Re: Plugged Cat/muffler/oil pressure?
  Historical mailing list - Kevin Dawson
  Wed, 19 Apr 2000 13:07:46 EDT
  Hi Jay, When a Cat and/or Muffler plug it causes a tremendous amount of back pressure. The engine over heats and then the...
• Re: Cat Bypass Pipe "pros & cons"
  Historical mailing list - PSD
  Fri, 17 Apr 2015 01:26:16 -0400
  I have "direct experience" riding behind vehicles with the cat removed. Makes me want to do PIT maneuver on them. -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon...
• Re: Failed emission inspection
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 4 Mar 2011 06:18:17 -0500
  The CO and NOx readings combined indicate a bad cat. CO above .5 is not lean at all as .5 is the ideal before...
• Deer whistles--do they work?
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Sat, 7 Sep 2013 22:06:13 -0700
  ...com/ec_view_details.php?id=4050&category_id=&category_pa rent_id> &category_id=&category_parent_id= I did run with them for...
• Re: Catalytic convertor
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:17:52 -0500
  ...The lambda sensor is ahead of the cat itself, even though it's in the same housing. Putting it after the cat would confuse...
• [F] cats
  Historical mailing list - ed donnen
  Fri, 22 Jul 2011 06:24:14 -0400
  We've all heard about getting people to work together is like herding cats. Well, here it is: herding cats http://www.youtube.com...
• Re: FS: "Typ 2 syncro Illustrated Catalogue"
  Historical mailing list - Bj�rn Ratjen
  Mon, 8 Nov 1999 10:23:11 -0800
  Larry, I offered a new version of this catalogue a while ago for about $20. I still have one left and I have several...
• Re: new fuel (LVC), Dead Cats
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 14 Sep 2005 18:22:50 -0500
  Don't worry about the cat supply. I have two next door cats that polish cars for a living. They're ethnic in some...
• Re: catalytic heater vs. propex?
  Historical mailing list - davidson
  Tue, 3 Nov 1998 14:54:51 -0800
  I paid $125 for my small Olympian unvented catalytic heater. $700, the loss of under seat storage, and quicker battery consumption seem like a...
• Parts Source
  Historical mailing list - Armstrong, Charles L.
  Mon, 01 Aug 94 13:58:00 cdt
  ...I got a catalog recently from a place called The Bus Stop. It is a division of Rocky Mountain Motorworks. Catalog lists parts applicable...
• Re: BUS BOYS
  Historical mailing list - Armstrong, Charles L.
  Fri, 15 Jul 94 07:55:00 cdt
  I ordered and received a catalog from Bus Boys about 4 years ago. The catalog was rather small(about 20 pages). They sent a...
• VW parts mail order catalogs
  Historical mailing list - Jon Sykes
  Fri, 15 Mar 2002 17:11:30 -0500
  I found a Summer 1999 Parts Place catalog in my new 82 diesel vanagon - from the previous owner. I called and order the current...
• Re: Cat. Converter..
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Sat, 20 Mar 1999 08:40:37 -0500
  > Do any of you have a Catalyc Converter for sale? Used preferable. > Not sure but I think the sale of used Cats may be...
• Re: Revisiting the Catalytic Converter...
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
  Mon, 5 Aug 2002 15:19:28 -0700
  oxygen sensor bad = running rich running rich = more work for cat to do more work for cat = getting hot & melting, literally. unplug your oxygen...
• Re: Catalytic Converter Clogged ?
  Historical mailing list - Andy Yarnell
  Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:21:46 -0500
  Not to belabor the point, but I too passed quite easily without the "guts" in my cat on a 1987 Vanagon 2.1L, I...
• Re: Replacing cat and muffler.
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:59:58 -0500
  ...I have a generic cat welded to the muffler inlet pipe. The cat is connected to the flange of the original cat which was...
• Re: Warning - Mice in van
  Historical mailing list - John H. Rodgers
  Mon, 9 Nov 1998 15:51:36 -0500
  ...An unclogged cat is pretty useful for preventing mice infestations,<< Yep, clogged cat is pretty bad. Farmer once had a clogged cat. Got in...
• Re: cause and effect, or not
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:17:03 -0700
  ...I'm not sure how to generally test for the failed cat condition though. Sometimes the cat pieces only get blown into a blocking...
• CATALOGS
  Historical mailing list - Sergio Derada
  Fri, 16 Jun 1995 11:23:42 -0500
  Where can I get all those VW catalogs?
• Re: The cat debacle or Schrodinger's Cat revisited
  Historical mailing list - mike miller
  Sat, 3 Nov 2001 11:18:02 -0800
  ...The cat debacle or Schrodinger's Cat revisited Schrodinger's Cat is a paradox not because he expects you to believe that a cat...
• List vendors
  Historical mailing list - coyote
  Tue, 26 May 1998 10:09:24 -0700
  Howdy, I'm going to set up a category in my 'Vendors' section of vanagon.com for 'Preferred Vendors'. This category is primarily for...
• Re: The Mouse that ate our Vanagon/FRIDAY
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Sat, 8 May 1999 10:11:44 -0500
  Hmmm, cats vs batts. "Herman and Heidi" vs "Sparky and Voltaire"? A tough call for some ,....but easy for me. BTW: We have an...
• Re: Where is *your* O2 Sensor?
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Sat, 18 May 2002 11:55:58 -0400
  > On my '89 Westy, my O2 sensor is screwed into my catalytic converter. It's > attached just beyond where the exhaust pipe connects to...
• Adding cats to old buses (no, not felines! ;)
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Fri, 12 Jul 1996 09:01:47 PDT
  ...pay for a catalytic converter to be installed on my bus), I'll > listen. Otherwise they can stay the hell out of my garage...
• plugged cat? due to bad coil?
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 22 Jan 1997 08:54:30 -0500 (EST)
  ...ive been diagnoseedd witha bad cat. lost ignition coil last week and cranked till battery dead. is this enuf raw gas to destroy cat...
• Re: WANTED: Hollow 2.1L WBX cat
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:19:32 -0800
  just don't ruin a good OE cat to make a hollow one. Those be rare and valuable in my world ~! and yes ... waterboxer...
• Re: Cat-again Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sat, 13 Apr 2002 19:25:25 -0500
  ...From the cat not me. http://williamwareagency.com/forsale/stanvan/cat1.jpg Stan On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 10:09:55 -0700 "S.C...
• Re: Used working catalytic converter
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Tue, 2 Sep 2014 23:53:40 -0500
  ...A used catalytic >> converter is not a new aftermarket catalytic converter, or a >> replacement part as defined below. This prohibition does not apply to...
• Re: California catalytic converter needed
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Fri, 2 Oct 2009 11:43:45 -0700
  ...There were no specific regulations or specs for the cats, so aftermarket manufacturers were skimping so badly on the necessary ingredients that the cats...
• Expected Life of a Cat Converter??
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:54:49 -0600
  Anyone know the answer? Is the cat converter one of those things like an O2 sensor - to stay on the game, it needs replacing...
• catbird
  Historical mailing list - ed donnen
  Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:01:44 -0400
  This is day two of the catbird leaving messages all over my car. Never before has something so small given so much for so...
• mexico bus in JCrew catalog
  Historical mailing list - Robert Cronin
  Fri, 13 Jun 1997 11:46:56 -0400 (EDT)
  My girlfriend was flipping through a JCrew catalog and pointed out a bus to me (she's got the bug! :)) ANyway after a quick...
• Re: Sliding Window Vent Covers
  Historical mailing list - Ben huot
  Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:46:02 -0400
  http://secure.cartsvr.net/catalogs/catalog.asp?category=76002&prodid=110572 2 link may be incomplete due to lenght, copy and paste or go...
• Re: Special Design Catalytic heater for westies
  Historical mailing list - Brent Christensen
  Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:32:40 -0700
  ...Special Design Catalytic heater for westies I read with interest all the accounts of people installing their Platinum Cat heaters in their Westies... Unfortunately...
• Re: Catalytic convertor
  Historical mailing list - Keith Adams
  Mon, 22 Jan 2001 08:37:43 -0700
  ...Catalytic convertors contain a catalyst, usually platinum beads, but may be rhodium or some other very pricy metal. This catalyst causes a reaction on...
• Re: The Bus Stop
  Historical mailing list - Sideshow Bob
  Tue, 9 May 1995 20:43:05 -0400 (EDT)
  ...the headliner's going back, the catalogue going in the cats litter box [i don't have a cat but i'm going to...
• Re: Used working catalytic converter
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 3 Sep 2014 01:32:00 -0400
  ...A used catalytic >> converter is not a new aftermarket catalytic converter, or a >> replacement part as defined below. This prohibition does not apply to...
• Re: Expected Life of a Cat Converter??
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 15 Jan 2011 21:42:44 -0500
  ...Expected Life of a Cat Converter?? I have never seen a factory recommendation for replacing the catalytic converter on any vehicle at some particular...
• Re: [Diesel-Vanagon] Re: Diesel Vanagon Exhaust Design
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Sat, 22 Dec 2012 12:20:32 -0800
  Good tip Dennis! If I ran the cat longitudinally, the O2 would be located in my "new" single outlet manifold. (OBD1 Jetta engine) Image...
• Re: green Friday
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sat, 5 Apr 2003 00:33:50 -0600
  ...He was a very cool, tolerant, smart cat. When its Friday again I'll tell you about Makeba, a Abyssinian Cat I had for...
• Re: Parts supplier on West coast
  Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
  Sat, 13 Jul 2013 10:14:45 -0700
  ...Catalytic converter and muffler, how do they join? > > > > Since it was installed by hack and slash, you are probably going to need a > new...
• FW: spring clip tool
  Historical mailing list - al jordans
  Sat, 17 Aug 2002 12:48:35 -0400
  ...http://buy.snapon.com/catalog/pro_det.asp?P65=yes&qt=1&tool=&INV_ONHAND=&FRE IGHT=&qty=1&Item_id=11394&PartNo=HCP10...
• Installing New CAT
  Historical mailing list - BJ Feddish
  Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:55:07 -0400
  I'm putting in a new Cat and muffler today when I realized the Cat may be directional. Is this the case? Does it...
• Re: Cat-again Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - S.C. Harrison
  Sat, 13 Apr 2002 18:44:27 -0700
  ...From the cat not me. > > http://williamwareagency.com/forsale/stanvan/cat1.jpg > > Stan > On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 10:09:55 -0700 "S.C...
• Re: Red hot cat. converter
  Historical mailing list - ROBERT DONALDS
  Fri, 7 Jan 2005 09:29:44 -0500
  The cat is red hot due to an overwhelming amount of unburnt fuel entering the exhuast and in then entering the cat one or...
• Re: Get Your Sad Faces Ready: 50 Studebakers Destroyed In Fire - Vanagon Content
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 8 Feb 2013 12:11:01 -0800
  ...In building a new exhaust for my swap, I often gave thought to the cat, pre cat pipe, long grass, cat shield or not...
• OK...... so I'm crazy.
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sat, 13 Apr 2002 20:40:31 -0500
  I put the very professional cat trap out. I'm not going to elaborate on the disinterest of the cat. I'll just bet...
• Vanagon items on sale this week
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:14:55 -0600
  ...http://secure.mycart.net/catalogs/catalog.asp?prodid=4757906 � Vanagon Colgan Bras: http://secure.mycart.net/catalogs/catalog.asp?prodid=4757907 � Vanagon Swivel Seat...
• Re: What is the "exhaust gas analyzer port" thing?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Donalds
  Sun, 29 Dec 2002 07:56:50 -0500
  the exhaust gas analyzer port is a caped opening before the cat that is used to sample exhaust gases before they go threw the...
• Re: a DANGEROUS humble sugestion
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Mon, 12 Nov 2001 20:59:42 -0600
  ...you can spend a small forture in just one of their 'sale' catalogs!! and the drool on the catalog pages is unslightly and disgusting...
• Re: Low Platinum Cat prices shown on I-net sales site.
  Historical mailing list - davidson
  Sun, 8 Nov 1998 10:35:51 -0800
  ...http://www.mrsolar.com/catalogue10.html#cat The date on this newer site is 10-5-98. They have lots of other interesting items...
• Re: Cat-again Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - S.C. Harrison
  Sat, 13 Apr 2002 10:09:55 -0700
  ...Cat-again Vanagon > I'm not going to do anything to this cat that I'd have any remorse over. > Just going to drop...
• Plat Cat Heater install pictures
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Jowell
  Wed, 7 Jan 2015 10:28:25 -0500
  Mike, here are some pictures of the Plat Cat heater install you requested. VW is in my barn probably to keep the mice happy...
• Cat-agin Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:54:36 -0600
  Saga of the cat continues. My nice neighbors have moved to North Carolina. They departed about 9 AM yesterday. As soon as I saw...