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Renault Clio MK3 TCE

Darthmahull

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Good day Renault enthusiasts. I am writing here to you because I have a difficulty with my TCE. I have a custom made downpipe but I am having difficulty in removing the catalitic converter. Can anyone explain me or give me some tutorial on how to remove it?
 
Thanks for the reply. I managed to find the service manual for my car. Tomorrow I'm getting myself a jack and some jackstands and if everything goes according to plan I will post my work here. Again thanks for your reply and I will try to make a tutorial for anyone who wants to do this.
 
you have to do it from underneath on a twingo tce. undo it from the turbo, it also has some brackets to the block on the rhs then some at the bottom. Remove the supporting brackets from the car and the the lower dog bone mount. Its tight but you can then rotate the cat and drop it out past the driveshaft.
 
The Clio is different from the twingo, there is no way I can turn the cat up side down, I already been under the car and did not got it out. Although I have not tried sliding the engine, perhaps it will come of that way. I'm confident it will be easy.
 
There is more space behind the engine on a clio 3 than a twingo. Twist it around as if you were turning it on a clock face not roll it over.
 
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Well someone took amazing tones of force to screw them o2 sensors, so I could not remove them, even started to strip the top one. Because of this no luck spinning the cat up side down, and because of this I tried to go for the driveshaft removal but I don't have the spare oil to refill the gearbox. I'm at a standstill...
 
Lambda's have a habit of siezing in cos of the constant heat cycles. I usually get a 24mm ring spanner over them. Last one I did I had to attach a levering bar to the spanner to get enough leverage to crack it off.
 
Best off cracking the lambda off when hot if possible. As above ring spanner over the plug and shock it loose.

Drain the gear oil into a clean sealed container and reuse if its only going to be out for short period. If its never been changed worth changing, use oem renault elf gear oil.
 
Best off cracking the lambda off when hot if possible. As above ring spanner over the plug and shock it loose.

Drain the gear oil into a clean sealed container and reuse if its only going to be out for short period. If its never been changed worth changing, use oem renault elf gear oil.

Thanks for the help, bought the oil and am getting a wrench for the lambda, been soaking it in wd40 while I drive it.
 
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