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New member here...been a reader for years, but finally joined today. My 96 1500 has had a rattling Cat since the day I bought it 5 years ago. Horrible at idle (I chuckled when I read about turning off truck at drive thru window - I can relate!), but seems to lessen above idle/at cruise. Either that or the exhaust drowns it out. It recently got worse, and I do have emissions testing, so been looking at alternatives. I'm glad to see that the Magnaflow Y-pipe is a popular choice, since that's exactly what I was thinking of doing. Hence my research here.
Well it took about 60 minutes and they welded in a net cat, they claimed it was a magnaflow, but who know. Anyway, it looks like a nicer job than I would have done, cost $390. No more rattling when starting up. I wanted to keep old one to cut open, they wanted a deposit, saying government makes them keep old one for x number of days. I could get deposit back, but decided too much of a pain to deal with whatever the heck they were talking about.
The government doesn't require a deposit.... They re-sell them to scrappers, for the rare-earth metals in the cat. They can be worth north of 75 bucks......
How is your plenum? And O2 sensors? Don't wanna trash the new cat.
In all reality, you could demand it back, it is, after all, a legal requirement for them to return all parts they replaced. (or, at the very least, allow you to inspect them, for those parts that have a core charge.... alternators, starters, calipers, etc.)