diff --git a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
index 4a0adbc98..ed8ab1dfe 100755
--- a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
+++ b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
@@ -465,12 +465,6 @@ post_to_2.4.30() {
 }
 
 post_to_2.4.40() {
-  echo "Stopping Curator"
-  so-curator-stop
-  echo "Removing Curator configuration"
-  rm -rf /opt/so/conf/curator/
-  rm -f /usr/sbin/so-curator-*
-  sed -i '/so-curator/d' /opt/so/conf/so-status/so-status.conf
 }
 
 repo_sync() {