98 civic lx cat replacement
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98 civic lx cat replacement
Vehicle: 1998 civic lx 1.6l non v-tech automatic trans. 4 door 100% stock (as far as I can tell since we bought the car with 70k on it.)
When the vehicle had 90k miles on it there was a crack in the exhaust manifold. I discovered the manifold can't be replaced without the cat. To me this is a design flaw. I want the option to replace just the exhaust manifold, or just the cat. So I installed a dorman exhaust manifold with a cat that bolts on (as opposed to the stock option which sells the two units welded together.)
Everything works fine and 7 years later, my CEL threw code p0420 at me. I replaced the O2 sensor (since it's the cheaper option for that code problem, and also easier.) No dice. Seems like I need to replace the cat.
now with 190k on the vehicle, 100k on the cat, here is my question. A.) This does indeed seem like a cat problem, yeah? B.) Does anyone know of anywhere that sells just the cat? All my searches come up with the exhaust manifold catalytic converter assembly. Or some sort of set. I can't for the life of me seem to find a way to buy just the cat.
Thoughts?
When the vehicle had 90k miles on it there was a crack in the exhaust manifold. I discovered the manifold can't be replaced without the cat. To me this is a design flaw. I want the option to replace just the exhaust manifold, or just the cat. So I installed a dorman exhaust manifold with a cat that bolts on (as opposed to the stock option which sells the two units welded together.)
Everything works fine and 7 years later, my CEL threw code p0420 at me. I replaced the O2 sensor (since it's the cheaper option for that code problem, and also easier.) No dice. Seems like I need to replace the cat.
now with 190k on the vehicle, 100k on the cat, here is my question. A.) This does indeed seem like a cat problem, yeah? B.) Does anyone know of anywhere that sells just the cat? All my searches come up with the exhaust manifold catalytic converter assembly. Or some sort of set. I can't for the life of me seem to find a way to buy just the cat.
Thoughts?
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Re: 98 civic lx cat replacement
So I installed a dorman exhaust manifold with a cat that bolts on (as opposed to the stock option which sells the two units welded together.)
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Well that seems to be my only option. I was hoping maybe someone knew of a place to get just the cat. Seems wasteful to just toss out a perfectly good exhaust manifold.
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Re: 98 civic lx cat replacement
now with 190k on the vehicle, 100k on the cat, here is my question. A.) This does indeed seem like a cat problem, yeah? B.) Does anyone know of anywhere that sells just the cat? All my searches come up with the exhaust manifold catalytic converter assembly. Or some sort of set. I can't for the life of me seem to find a way to buy just the cat.
B) Ask a local junkyard to pull one for you or pull one yourself (cheaper). Other option:
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