dr0x

Have the radiator and oil cooler+lines flushed.

vegeta6263

Well, i bought a new radiator... and about the oil cooler lines their is no way in hell i can get them out... anyone has a especial tecnique besides RAW force? I took of the upper manifold with the Throttle body.. I took off the alternator, the air pump, the a/c ( I mean everything from the a/c except for the a/c compressor man the bottom bolts are so misshapen due to all the crap i tried to use to get them out )... I took off the wiring harnes along with the rats nest, battery tray.. the p/s pump and im trying to get the p/s pump frame and the waterpump...I took all the bolts out of it is just that the fan won't come out cuz the botom pullie turns. i took the bottom plastic residue retainer ( hahah ) anyways im kinda empty handed with out the jackstands so what else should i TRY to get out? before my friends come with the jackstands and the engine hoist?

vegeta6263

thanx all you guys for your help!
how exactly do you gut the cats and where are they located in the engine bay?

Fingers

You'd first want to skin them with a filet knife... then use a collection of hooks and meat cleavers to get the remaining cat guts out.

1987RX7guy

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He is in the proccess of taking the LIM out.

Trav

LOL Fingers... I have a couple that I would donate...

Vegeta, the cats are not in the engine bay... Well, technically you could reach maybe a pre-cat from the engine bay, but the cats are part of your exhaust system, so to do any work on them, I'd suggest dropping your exhaust. I suppose you could do it w/o dropping the whole thing, but I would imagine you'd have more bloodied knuckles than would be worth the effort.

Anyway, looking at your exhaust tubing you're going to see 3 major components excluding the tip: Mufflers, the actual pipe, and cats. If you know what the mufflers look like -- everything else that's not piping is a cat. (i.e. funny lumps in the piping that sorta resemble a muffler).

EDIT: Crap, I just read my above description and it confuses ME! How do you explain what a cat looks like? It looks like a cat! Anyway, maybe someone has a pic.

sneakyasian

header, three cats, meow then the y pipe meow then mufflers. meow remove the pieces in between the y pipe and headers meow and those R the cats. meow

vegeta6263

bump

JDMkamikazeeRX

I didnt think you could have headers with cats. I think you are talking about the exhaust manifold.

vegeta6263

i will gut the cats but for now... what should i do? i still have my engine in the car
and my tranny conected.
...um reading through some threads.. 150 bucks sounds liek crazy amount of money to rebuild a oil cooler. i can ******* buy one for 100.00 in ebay!...New..... i know i know u guys are gonna say .. better get it done rigth once that getting half way and then ******* up again and paying double.