Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums General Troubleshooting heat shield off main cat

While under the car doin' the O2 sensor thing, I noticed that the heat shield for the main cat was loose. The shield along the weld had completely corroded on one side, and the other side was 90% gone. I bent it and it came off in my hand. When looking at it, I can't imagine that it does anything except maybe catch water sprayed up, or keep the cat from starting a grass fire (if I were to drive my low draggin' tour across a hay field - I won't)

The cat body seems completely solid. Is there any reason to get the shield tack-welded back on? (I don't see any). Is this a common thing with 'tours?

Thx

Brent

i noticed that mine was loose as well. but far from falling off. using some tools at work i was able to put it back on. <<and much more sturdier than before>>. when i was there, i didnt feel it had a particular purspose, like most things on cars (air conditioner, seat blets Etc:) but for real, i didnt want to harm anything further. call Furd see what they say. BTW what were you doing with the 0s sensor. mine just took a shat yesterday, spitting all kinds of codes at me.

I wouldn't worry about it - like you said the bottom shield is there to stop a fire from starting if you parked the car on dry grass. Musta' been replacing the rear O2 sensor if you were under the car. My 95 SE ONLY has 225,000 km's on it!

for O2 sensor story, look at the thread "EEC IV code..." under troubleshooting... It probably got bumped onto the next page.

Brent