Marc,

I'd remove the Catalytic/Muffler assembly at the collector where both
exhaust manifolds attach. That way you can get at all the bolts and replace
the ones at the collector, too.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to
find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
            -- Friedrich Nietzsche

>From: marc milobinski <marcmilo@YAHOO.COM>
>Reply-To: marc milobinski <marcmilo@YAHOO.COM>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: replacing catalytic converter
>Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 12:55:30 -0800
>
>I need to replace the catalytic converter on my 81
>air-cooled.....looked under there yesterday and it is
>a pain to get to the top bolts.  The fact that the
>bolts are rusted solid doesn't help things.  Any words
>of advise?
>
>Thanks.
>marc
>
>
>
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