catalytic converter theft

Couldn't you torch it? Can't say I have much experience with cables like this. But I see a nice hot torch and some pliers and I think it would give..

 

Just about as suspicious as you walking around with a cordless za-saw and a bag of tools.

I was more thinking something like this could work.. Again, I have no clue.

http://www.lowes.com/pd_98894-717-2...l=1&currentURL=/pl__0__s?Ntt=torch&facetInfo=

 

Our trucks have 4 cats...the bottom aft 2 are the one's being ripped off. After reading about this happening a few years back I had a plate fabbed up. It's removable and attaches to the two threaded holes in the frame and the cross member useing hardware that a normal wrench or socket won't work on. I added additional heat protection around the wires to the sensors and made sure the design allowed for good air flow. It's been on for 3 years now with no problems.

 

If someone's rolling around with a reciprocator stealing catalytic converters I'm sure they would have bolt cutters too which would go right through that cable

 

Where is your neck of the woods?

 

Happened to my 3rd gen 4Runner when I used to live in Tulsa, OK with all of the meth heads.



Ironically I was parked at work - where we had tens of millions of dollars worth of catalytic converters in the warehouse inside...

 

Guess you just need an alarm sensor of some sort under there and some cold blue steel?!

Or you could just slam it!

 

Can't remember who, but one guy recently made a cat cover out of expanded metal.

 

If he's in California, they do a visual.

 

I believe they are.

The ECU looks at the the rear 02's, to make sure they are not matching the fronts. If they do match the fronts (voltage wise,) then you get the flashing CEL and a catalytic converter trouble code.

 

• P0420 Catalyst System Efficiency Below Threshold (Bank 1)
• P0421 Warm Up Catalyst Efficiency Below Threshold (Bank 1)
• P0422 Main Catalyst Efficiency Below Threshold (Bank 1)
• P0423 Heated Catalyst Efficiency Below Threshold (Bank 1)
• P0424 Heated Catalyst Temperature Below Threshold (Bank 1)
• P0430 Catalyst System Efficiency Below Threshold (Bank 2)
• P0431 Warm Up Catalyst Efficiency Below Threshold (Bank 2)
• P0432 Main Catalyst Efficiency Below Threshold (Bank 2)
• P0433 Heated Catalyst Efficiency Below Threshold (Bank 2)
• P0434 Heated Catalyst Temperature Below Threshold (Bank 2)

 

I'm about 20 minutes south of Atlanta.

 

this was my concern. I have a Mustang as a toy and had to get my tuner to shut the rear o2's down (open up the parameters) so it would not throw the CEL when i changed out the midpipe. I still have to put my cats back on for emmissions though. Most of the time they do a visual, i assume that is because of how loud the car is and since it is a mustang they expect them not to be there.

swapping the mid pipe is a pain, and i don't want that hassle with the truck too.

 

That is what i have been looking at. From looking at it, the driver's side cat and oil pan hang about 1" lower than the frame, so i have to find someone with a sheet metal brake. I figured that and bolt it in with torx bolts, still up in the air as to cutting an access hole for the oil drain, or just dropping the whole plate each time. The air flow is a bit of a concern - wondering if maybe a few rows of 1" holes might work

 

Because It has "Precious Metals" in it that turn a High dollar at a Salvage yard.

 

Have to invent an electrical shock that goes throughout vehicle for thieving pieces of shit.

 

i got one made through a friend, 12ga steel, did the speed holes in it. Held up by 4 torx bits. just have to sand it down, clean it, and shoot it.