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Keep wanting to gut the precats and get my ypipe modded, but then I realize that the ypipe has a "pin" type thing that that prevents me from removing the ypipe from the cat. The pin kind of holds the one bolt that connects the ypipe and cat together. How do I get it out of there so I can FINALLY get that thing off.
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the spring style bolt thingy is really stupid, basically what i did was remove the nuts from the flange, remove the springs and everything, pull off the main cat setup, and then pull off the y-pipe.
Once you get under the car and start doing it it will go easily.
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I can get the nuts off the bolt but I can't move that pin for the life of me, and because of that I can't get the spring out or the bolt. I am able to get all the bolts off everywhere else but there....so you are saying take the ypipe and the cat converter off? If that is the case, should I bring the whole thing like that in to have the pipe modded? 
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i think there is a retaining clip (the clip you speak of) on the y-pipe, i just ripped mine out cause i wasent going to use it anymore, i dunno what you should do. i say just go at her and try to figure out a way to get it off. or just take the y-pipe and cat off in one piece and then work on it.
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why in the name of all that is good and holy did they bother to use that thing on there to begin with. I don't see why they just didn't use a a regular bolt and nut like the other side. Maybe I will just rip/torch/dremel it off if there is no real reason why it is on there
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Originally posted by elraido:
why in the name of all that is good and holy did they bother to use that thing on there to begin with. I don't see why they just didn't use a a regular bolt and nut like the other side. Maybe I will just rip/torch/dremel it off if there is no real reason why it is on there
id advise against that, its not the best idea, like i said take the y-pipe off the car and remove it as one piece, then just tool around with it inside your house or something.
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I ran into a problem 2-bolt y-pipe on Saturday. One bolt nut came off, the other - the stud snap. So after I got the y-pipe off the car, I used a punch anhnd mallet to bust out the broken stud held in with a pin. The pin on the other side came out with vice grips and PB Blaster. I replaced both studs with regular bolt-and-nuts.
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