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Old 10-28-07, 01:21 PM
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Found this in the driveway. What is it? Looks like a bumper for the suspension or something. Real heavy

http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=...0&h=1&y=hny519
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Found this in the driveway. What is it? Looks like a bumper for the suspension or something. Real heavy

http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=...0&h=1&y=hny519
Counter weight on exhaust near the catalytic converter, Lexmex and I both took it off our RXs because they do nothing but add dead weight to the car.
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Was put on the vehicles for third harmonics vibration sound coming into some of the RX's was a early tsb on the old RX
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Thanks! You guys are awesome. I was ready to pull the wheels off to see what was missing.

That thing could kill someone if it took a bounce on the highway.
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Originally Posted by TunedRX300
Counter weight on exhaust near the catalytic converter, Lexmex and I both took it off our RXs because they do nothing but add dead weight to the car.
So how can it appear in OH?
Old 10-29-07, 08:13 AM
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That thing can rust itself off as I remember it having a lot of rust on it before I threw mine in the garbage a few years back.

There is also another weight on the driver's side near the rear that is saucer shaped, kind of like an upside down flower pot.
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