Jason,

would the reference to "leaning left" be political comment?  ;~)

JGS

----- Original Message -----
From: Jason Yasment <jyasment@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: Empty Cat. Converter

> My '84 Westy Californie Spec model has several
> differences....full cat, fuel filters both before and
> after pump, and a tendency to lean towards the left.
>
>
> --- Jean-Guy Savoie <jgsavoie@NBNET.NB.CA> wrote:
> > My 1984 1.9L Westy (Canadian model, bought in
> > Germany by a fly boy at the height of the clod war)
> > also has an empty cat.  I had always assumed it had
> > been tampered with, but there is no sign of it. The
> > way they are made would make that a simple job, just
> > remove and hammer away with a chisel or steel rod of
> > sorts. I think that the fact it is empty makes it
> > noisier, it sort of rings. Bently shows the ceramic
> > insert??? Was ist dass?
> >
> > I suppose the question for the list members would
> > be:  Does anyone have a cat with the insert intact?
> > Any difference between Canadian, American federal
> > and California?
> >
> > JGS
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: Gary Stearns
> >   To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> >   Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 8:46 AM
> >   Subject: Empty Cat. Converter
> >
> >
> >   I noticed in a post today asking about Stebro
> > exhausts a mention of a catalytic converter that
> > came from the factory "empty".  I bought our '88
> > used in '93.  It too had an empty catalyst.  I
> > remember thinking that this was strange as I bought
> > the Vanagon from a VW dealer (they shouldn't let go
> > of it with a tampered emissions system right?), but
> > the converter showed no evidence of having been
> > forcefully reamed out.  Since then I have seen
> > several other posts referring to empty cat. cons.
> > Do Vanagons mysteriously tempt tampering or did VW
> > actually sell them this way.  Why?  Was an empty
> > converter just a place to hang an O2 sensor?  Was it
> > empty because our Vanagons are seen by the feds as
> > light trucks, not having to meet the same standards
> > as passenger cars?
> >
> >   Gary
> >
>
>
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