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Old Oct 31, 2006 | 10:08 AM
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...to remove the rear O2 sensors. Damn, I'm retarded.

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Old Oct 31, 2006 | 10:20 AM
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damn son how the hell did you not notice that lol. thats pretty sweet
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Old Oct 31, 2006 | 10:24 AM
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Ouch... that sucks ***. Good luck on it the rest of the way.
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Old Oct 31, 2006 | 12:34 PM
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LOL i did the same thing.
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I bet it drives better now
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Old Oct 31, 2006 | 07:27 PM
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how did you do that??? I can't see how that would happen
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Old Oct 31, 2006 | 08:28 PM
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Hey, it makes sparks on the road...
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I cross-threaded an o2 into a stock y pipe and it did the same thing. lol
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I was gutting the cat on my S-10 because it blew out and was plugging up and ****. So I was ramming this big steel rod through the cat and forgot that the O2 sensor was still in the pipe. kinda broken now
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I decided not to mess with mine and just put new ones in with my new Y/ headers. I only wish i would have known to to motor mounts at the same time.However, after having to take the headers out about 4 times now i have cut the original install time by more than half.
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