On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 22:43:05 GMT, mike-r@earthlink.net (Mike R) wrote:

>Same situation with my sister's 99 CRV. Not a big deal though. Followed
>the 02 sensor wire and removed the rubber grommet. Pulled the wires three
>or four inches and the connector was right there. Disconnected and pulled
>through the top shield hole. Piece of cake. The shields were about $42.00
>each and included replacement bolts...I'm sure you don't need to removed
>the 02 sensor. Try to find the connector behind the rubber grommet... It's
>in there...

Apparently not the "same situation" as a CR-V or you did not follow my
reasoning. There is insufficient clearance between the catalytic converter
and body to get the heatshield over the stem of the O2 sensor... thus the
need to drop the converter. As also mentioned, pulling the wiring is easy.

>
>In article <sjqgovgsmk0bos2nqt4h3smp2ke0rq6g9t@4ax.com>, George Macdonald
><fammacd=!SPAM^nothanks@tellurian.com> wrote:
>
>> I'll start with a bleat here: our '93 Camry went 105K miles before we sold
>> it and the exhaust had never been touched and did not leak - the original
>> heat sheilds were intact and did not rattle. It kinda annoys me that the
>> Honda catalytic converter heatshields start to disintegrate around the
>> fasteners at ~45K miles
>>
>> Though it is clearly shown in the service manual I got a surprise recently
>> when I went to take of a rattling top heatshield on my '99 Integra. The
>> secondary O2 sensor goes through a hole in the heatshield and I ended up
>> cutting the heatshield with a Dremel cutting disk to get it off. What a
>> PITA.
>>
>> Now I'm wondering how to go about putting a new top heatshield in - there
>> seem to be two options: 1) remove the O2 sensor, install heatshield and
>> reinstall O2 sensor; 2) wait till the B-pipe needs replaced so the cat can
>> be dropped far enough to get the clearance to install the new heatshield
>> over the sensor, which also involves pulling the wire from inside the car
>> of course... which I've found is relatively easy.
>>
>> Given that O2 sensor removal poses certain potential difficulties/pitfalls,
>> I'm wondering what others have done here. Either way, it seems like quite
>> a rigmarole compared with older models... which could be avoided if Honda
>> would make heatshields with just a bit more corrosion resistance.

Rgds, George Macdonald

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