F ing Thieves

[Weird Beard]

Just went out to get charge cords out of my 03 2500 8.1 suburban and found that my cats had been swiped. I just used it to tow last week. So pissed. Any one have opinions on solving this? Gonna call cops and insurance tomorrow. I still can't believe that someone is stealing cats off these trucks. They had to work to get mine. Grrrrrrrrr.

Rant over.

 

[Wes Harden]

yeah dam they're not that easy to get to. Kinda worried what else got damaged. You have to buy the expensive Kommiefornia approved cats now, that sucks.

My preferred punishment for cat thieves

 

[Weird Beard]

They are so tight in there that I figured they'd be good. I have all my vehicles plated in the mountains so I don't have sniffer tests. I looked online for shucks and grins, all the eligible part number are out of stock. Now I'm thinking about headers and a full exhaust build. I just really like how quiet it was.

 

[Weird Beard]

Thanks Wes

 

[muddybuddy]

Such bs, hate thieves. Sorry it happened. Maybe after headers and exhaust it will sound awesome and you wont miss the cat, though the way it happened wont be forgotten

 

[ZooMad75]

If you want the non-cali cats find a buddy in Wyoming to drop ship too. We have had to do that at to shop on personal vehicles here to avoid the bs high cost carb legal crap.

 

[Weird Beard]

@ZooMad75 Totally the answer. I did that for BIL on his tundra. Saved an enormous amount of money.

 

[4X4ForDad]

Just be thankful you do not own a 83 Jeep 4.0 and live in Kali ! The only year Jeep did away with an EGR and used a 3 (or 4?) stage Cat instead. BIG $$$ and difficult to find.

 

[CT-BLAZER]

Bite the bullet.... And let the comp insurance buy a new GM OEM system like you had...

LKQ in insurance lingo means the same as you had....not something else...

 

[Weird Beard]

I called and all the cat parts are discontinued

 

[CT-BLAZER]

Discontinued.... Doesn't mean an estimate couldn't be written with the Mitchell crash book or dealers old price list....

Or take some newer GM parts and fabricate the exhaust system from GM's patterns...
Watched GM tech fabricate an older Corvette exhaust system with dimensions, radius..... Fit like a glove , it just fell into perfect position.

 

[Weird Beard]

My exhaust guy was very adept at making estimate. He always dials it in so you almost can't tell it was ever touched.

 

[Weird Beard]

Can't make this up. Went out to get truck for a quick run to costco this morning. Smelled a light bit of raw fuel. Didn't think much about it. Got to costco and noticed the smell again. Looks like some kook drilled the tank to steal fuel. Starting to be a serious problem in the Republic of Boulder.

 

[Weird Beard]

Anyone have the upper tank or a solid solution to fix?

 

[skunked]

I would look into a plastic epoxy option.

 

[ktmoutfront]

Soldering Iron and a plastic mud flap. Will melt it, but not hot enough to catch fire.

 

[shady]

Fat screw and a big dab of this.
The big Rubber ring that seals my buddies filler neck to the tank on his Cordoba is submerged when it's full. It was bad and leaking. So we smeared a whole tube of this around it as a 'temporary' fix 2 years ago.
Still doesn't leak.

 

[8seater]

Can’t believe how society has fallen, wish we could chop hands off… ive been lucky enough not to have this happen yet. Probably go to jail defending my hard earned possessions…

 

[Wes Harden]

Public Hangins, to be performed at local high school during lunch, mandatory attendance