Refitted my CAT exhaust today

Due to new MOT rules I thought it prudent to refit my CAT and as my middle box flange nuts and studs were crusty and impossible to get off I fitted a new middle box (genuine landrover, taken of a new delivery mileage defender, still has labels on, £85 ebay) a real bargain.
What a pain, had to cut the nuts off the old flanges which took an age, then had to remove under trays and chassis cross member and undo the front anti roll bar and swing it down to get front pipe out and CAT pipe in, the under trays were fixed to chassis with rivets just to add to the fun. All in now and the exhaust smells a lot better, it was a very embarrasing before, it really did smell bad. Refitted the EGR last week so should be okay when MOT day comes.
I am as stiff as a board now with aches and pains in places I did not now I had. Getting too old for working under cars, But job done.

Probably pointless n all.

Most seem to be having a fit about it all but I doubt much will change, though we shall see.

I wanted to change it anyway, due to the smelly tailpipe emissions and to avoid a possible MOT fail for not having it on. It really has made a big difference to the exhaust smell.
I am glad I have replaced it and the EGR system, it still drives the same, there was no benefit from having them removed. I never noticed any anyway.

Because you spend most the time at the tailpipe end when driving

Comments from others whe stopped and engine running, it was bad. Every time I got out after turning it off you could smell it.

Scooby22 said:

Getting too old for working under cars, But job done.

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Tell me about it . Just crawled under me daughters Ka this morning to do the annual oil change and got to do the missus's Ka this week. Modern cars like these will not go up my ramps because the front body work fouls on the ramps, so have made a couple of timber ramps which raise the front wheels by about 4 inches (no millimetres here) so's I can squeeze me head under the front end to get at the sump plug and oil filter. Sod it, they can take it to a garage next year. But still plenty of beer belly clearance to get under the landy

Wimblowdriver said:

Tell me about it . Just crawled under me daughters Ka this morning to do the annual oil change and got to do the missus's Ka this week. Modern cars like these will not go up my ramps because the front body work fouls on the ramps, so have made a couple of timber ramps which raise the front wheels by about 4 inches (no millimetres here) so's I can squeeze me head under the front end to get at the sump plug and oil filter. Sod it, they can take it to a garage next year. But still plenty of beer belly clearance to get under the landy

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On wifes audi which is an s-line so stupidly super low, I just use the trolley jack to jack one whole side of the car up chuck an axle stand under there and drain the oil, pretty painless and Im not slim either!

Us older guys still talk in imperial at work which is strange as we all learnt metric at school.

lynall said:

Us older guys still talk in imperial at work which is strange as we all learnt metric at school.

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At school was still imperial. First job in engineering after leaving school was still imperial, all drawings were in feet inches and fractions of inches. For surveying, the dimensions had to be converted into feet and decimals of feet which was a bit of a bu66er and needed a conversion chart to be carried. Not fun in bad weather. Next job was metric and stayed that way ever since and makes perfect sense. But I still work in imperial at home.