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Offline reb

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What is it?
« on: September 12, 2005, 06:50:33 PM »
I have tinkered with cars for longer than I (and probably most of you) can remember.  I was crawling around under my Sidekick this morning and saw this attached to the tail pipe behind the cataclysmic converter.  I have never seen one before.  What is it?

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Re: What is it?
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2005, 06:58:04 PM »
I Don't know, a duncan yoyo? it has a picture on it.looks like a snowman wearing a hat. ;D
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Re: What is it?
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2005, 07:16:33 PM »
Maybe some kind of harmonic balancer? My 89 Crown Vic had 2 on the 2 pipes as they bent and went togather. 
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Re: What is it?
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2005, 10:41:27 PM »
Looks like a muffler bearing
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Re: What is it?
« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2005, 01:29:11 AM »
Vibration damper would be my guess.

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Re: What is it?
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2005, 03:13:04 AM »
Are the wires behind it going into whatever that is :-\

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Re: What is it?
« Reply #6 on: September 13, 2005, 03:39:01 AM »
I think it has something to do with emissions control.
What year? Where are you?
Or: it could be an emergency hockey puck  ???
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Re: What is it?
« Reply #7 on: September 13, 2005, 03:43:58 AM »
Quote from: Uncivilized on September 13, 2005, 03:39:01 AM
Or: it could be an emergency hockey puck  ???

Those crazy Canadians  ;D

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Re: What is it?
« Reply #8 on: September 13, 2005, 03:45:01 AM »
Somebody got REALY confused while doing a body lift  :-\

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Re: What is it?
« Reply #9 on: September 13, 2005, 04:36:57 AM »
Maybe someone has plugged off a hole designed for a second O2 sensor. Later models have one behind the cat that measures its effectiveness.
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Re: What is it?
« Reply #10 on: September 13, 2005, 11:08:31 AM »
I had THREE of those on my stock 4-door exhaust pipe.

They're bifurcated metriculation remediation devices.  You really don't want the bifurcated metriculation, do you?  Of course you don't.  When they test the Sidekicks at the factory, they first insert a full-length bifurcated metriculation sensor, with integrated harmonic localizers, which determine where to bolt on the remediation devices, if any are required.

I don't think I've ever seen one of those on a 2-door though...  Odd, huh?
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Re: What is it?
« Reply #11 on: September 13, 2005, 11:47:03 AM »
Quote from: wildgoody on September 12, 2005, 10:41:27 PM
Looks like a muffler bearing

If it is a muffler bearing, it is misplaced.  It is too far forward.

Quote from: Zukipilot on September 13, 2005, 03:13:04 AM
Are the wires behind it going into whatever that is :-\

Zig

The wires behind it are not connected to it.  They are for something else.

Quote from: Uncivilized on September 13, 2005, 03:39:01 AM
I think it has something to do with emissions control.
What year? Where are you?
Or: it could be an emergency hockey puck ???
No wires or any other connection to anything but the bracket, so it can't be emissions related.  The car is a '98 Sport, originally sold in Wyoming and registered in S Dakota, now in Arizona.
It could be a hidden emergency hockey puck--the vehicle was originally registered in one of our northern states.

Quote from: Zukipilot on September 13, 2005, 03:45:01 AM
Somebody got REALY confused while doing a body lift :-\

Zig

Maybe the extra weight was intended to lower it instead?

Quote from: Rhinoman on September 13, 2005, 04:36:57 AM
Maybe someone has plugged off a hole designed for a second O2 sensor. Later models have one behind the cat that measures its effectiveness.

There is no hole in the exhaust pipe.  This thing is attached to a bracket welded onto the pipe.
There is a second O2 sensor ahead of this thing.

Bobzooki:  I haven't found my dictionary yet, so I might have to agree with you.

I think the vibration damper suggestion probably makes sense.  This thing is a round piece of steel attached with rubber to its mounting bracket, so it can move.  Seems to me there would be a simpler way.

Maybe the exhaust pipe is short enough on the 2-door models that these are not needed.
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Re: What is it?
« Reply #12 on: September 14, 2005, 07:16:29 AM »
Quote from: reb on September 13, 2005, 11:47:03 AM
Bobzooki:  I haven't found my dictionary yet, so I might have to agree with you.

I think the vibration damper suggestion probably makes sense.  This thing is a round piece of steel attached with rubber to its mounting bracket, so it can move.  Seems to me there would be a simpler way.

Maybe the exhaust pipe is short enough on the 2-door models that these are not needed.

Really, I made it all up!  See my thread titled "an error has occurred"!
But yes, it could actually be a weight to stop vibration!
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Re: What is it?
« Reply #13 on: September 14, 2005, 05:03:04 PM »
my guess is its one of those doohickeys that ya can never find at the store when ya need one...  or perhaps there is some sort of tracking device within it so the little green men and the powers that be can keep track of you.  Pay no attention to it, or the two men with bad suits and dark glasses sitting in the P.O.S. sedan across the street...
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Re: What is it?
« Reply #14 on: September 15, 2005, 03:55:55 AM »
It's a Alien Vehicular Anal Probe  ;D

That or the mysterious Special Tool : 197-00b87Jx-2  that is commonly known as a muffler bearing magnetic adjuster ;D

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