[pdxrealtor]

6)Take your skid plate off, and your brush guard... the one below the tranny pan.

7) Remove your O2 sensors. The only one I had to unplug was pass. side front. The rest were easily tucked out of harms way.

8) Once all your header bolts are loose you're onto the underside of the truck to remove the pipes from cat forward (if you got the high flow cat kit, which I did). There's two ways to do this. Cut it out, or unbolt everything nice and neat. Why you'd want to do the second way is beyond me. I grabbed my sawzall and started cutting. I did save 3 or so inches on each side of the cat so I can sell them. They only have 50k on them.

TIP- leave one header bolt partly bolted in, that way the headers don't fall to the ground when you remove the under car pipes. This advice is all based on the fact that you're doing yourself a huge favor and cutting these b*tches out...

The headers will come out of the bottom. If you have any height at all (jack stands), nothing goes on under the hood. It's all from the wheel well and under the car.

See my cut points in these pics, and the entire system removed shows the cut points as well.