Prius Cat Theft Tracking

Yeah Prius Camper how dare you throw those two words at him “science and data”?

His crowd doesn’t believe it doesn’t trust it doesn’t understand it.

Jewish Space lasers now your talking!

 

- how to determine if the prius cats are clogged or how soon the o2 sensor will throw a 420.
- will burning E85 (/ E15) gas help clean the cats ?
- there was somewhere a rule of thumb that a cat lasts for 10 yrs ..
- autozone has a series of suggestions about cat end of life ---
- car shaking at idle
-- smell of rotten eggs from exhast
- car performance reduced
- 'hot ' cats (temps high due to reduced flow)

 

California doesn't really care about emissions. It's a structured racket: create another useless governmental regulatory bloat agency that drains taxpayers and charges corporations to license products solely for California. Driving into LA we always see the brown haze over the city, and the sheer amount of vehicles sitting in huge amounts of traffic (not to mention crapton of semi trucks from both overactive ports-Los Angeles and Long Beach) while the rich drive past in newer vehicles via special toll lanes (mostly). California also has a regulated permit exchange by which legal industrial pollution permits are bought/sold.

The price of obedience to these laws? For those poor or middle-class, screwed. And they pinch just enough so either industry and corporations put up with it for "fun in the sun" or run screaming elsewhere.

I asked to convert my Prius to full electric in order to be eligible for the carpool lane via special permitting process (case by case basis), and they said no, and encouraged me to buy a new electric vehicle off their approved list.

 

just got the cats removed .. replaced with new ... have sligthly larger pipe diameter and cats are closer to ex. mani ..
seems the cat temps are thusly higher (or at least get hotter faster) .. also shorter pipe between the 2 ... (where the O2 sense is) .. seems the engine was breathing a bit better (subtle amount) .. mpg's seemed low then they seemed high ..
maybe it was that fill up with shell gas .. i still have leaking tires so that is dragging but so far seems to be running ever so slightly smoother and I imagine it will get better with more on/off cycles as the computer better adjusts ...

 

They may BE here, but they COME FROM elsewhere in the U.S. I want people to remember that part when they complain about DC. (Yeah, I live here.)

 

So to greatly reduce crime we defund the US government. That should reduce the lawyer count in DC greatly.

 

The Lawyers in government enriching themselves at taxpayers expense are a large part of the problem. Trump was the first modern President to leave office less wealthy than when he entered.

 

nothing better to divide people than religion and politrix ....

 

Those are different things?

 

politics - political party systems (dem rep green ind , etc)
religion - divisions of belief systems (monotheistic - polythestic {the many religions and their subdivisions }, atheistic,

 

The Federal government cannot usurp state governor responsibilities. They can only assist.

 

is it a coincidance that TX: just got a double spankin with the electric grid / green energy with-holdings .. and a 100 yr cold snap right after talk of succession and 2nd ammendment sancuary were coming off the table ?

 

I spent a little more on shipping and finding a fast shop that will do the swap for you takes some time (not all shops will use your 'bring it in part' ... ) .. i dont know the list of states that require oem .. then there is a smaller # of states that require 'new oem' ... its not a 'fast and simple' swap ... the hardest part is likely the removal of the 2 bolts at the flange because the bolt heads spin in an inaccessible area ? .. A shop that knows what they are doing, with car on a lift, 2 people worknig can have an old one out, and new one in (o2 sensor functioning) and welded in under ~15 minutes.

 

well after my dilly dallying trying to find a shop that was expedient (if i'd have known the bolts dont spin i may have attempted the job myself . it would be doable without a lift , boy my dad talked me right out of it .. he tried to talk me out of doing this cat swap .. i think because the existing looks good .. and is worknig .. but even tonight when i notified 'the money cleared' he still wasnt fully onboard but was suprised ...

I spent $175 at the shop and i had no idea they were gonna be that fast but they told me the pipe diameters weren't gonna work with the clamp (in the kit) (i sugested pipe expander and guy said he would have to pull the rest of exhaust off to do that then it would increase the job price ) .. -- the ebay drop in was 105$ ... i'm not sure what a stroight pipe could be acquired that should save $ would have been and how it would affect performance (what tiny gain in hP) --

I have yet to inspect what they did down there .. just sick of working on the car as the ABS unit failed tripped and the soft pedal and the continous tone happened 4 weeks ago .. (module replaced 3wks ago and tone happened t again today) which was remidied with adding fluid to resoirvor .. for how long will it last now ?? do not know ..... always something ---