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Iirc it was high rpm. He didn’t log it, so I didn’t get a printout. I just remember the 1.6% CO at 2500rpm was the problem.
Once you get it to pass, now that it has failed, you'll get to do it again next year because it will have nice a fat GROSS POLLUTER notation associated with the VIN. We all know it, but the elites won't do it, these vehicles should not be required to do bi-annual emissions testing because they are not driven high miles and are much fewer on the road.
Got it, it appears I was doing bad math and my vacuum is actually quite good then…
Yes, but he saved me the trouble of it being labeled a gross polluter. Officially, I did not fail. He didn’t even charge me. He’s a good guy.
That's a good shop, good man, you're lucky he did that. I would recommend what was already mentioned, and that is running some cleaner through it and get some highway miles under its belt before the next check. If it legitimately passed for you to buy it, it could simply be it needs to be blown out some to clean the carbon off the pistons.
Unfortunately, Leno’s law won’t apply to 1988s. The rolling cutoff will stop at 1986.if this is california,...the Leno Law = still a unsurpassed Bill.
(...Leno Bill, one of the things I have seen on it concerns those vehicles that are more than 35 plus years old....so a 1988 is now 38 years old,...)
I really wonder how many classic cars leave California, due to this. I live in NYS and after 25 years, no more plugging in ,..just a visual safety inspection for lights / brakes/ frame etc. ...= frame to make sure the rust has not transformed it into thin clean air....and anything older than 25 years is not driven much. Rare to see something out from Nov to April, ... maybe a working truck cobbled together from many and being saved by fluid film. (like something imported from somewhere warm and dry without salt).
Leno's Classic Car Emissions Exemption Bill Is Back. Here's Why California Might Pass It This Time
Emissions exemptions for classic cars in the Golden State are one step closer to becoming law.www.roadandtrack.com
I’m currently looking for a property/cabin in a smog exempt county of CA somewhere off of 395, preferably as far north as possible so it’s halfway between our house and my in-laws in Oregon.so,...what you need is a clean title off 73-1986, with a clean vin plate that matches.
old carb dead ones, springing back to life with fuel injection and trim pieces of 87-88
someone with better ideas may say something,...
In CA the cats have to be a match to the vehicle.
well, in a state and locality that no one is looking, or actually looking,
Unfortunately you have to swap the entirety of the emissions controls from whatever it is. So he would likely have to swap in a flex fuel system from a 2004 or later equivalent Tahoe/Burb. That would probably require engine/trans/fuel line and tank mods/entire exhaust from manifolds to cats from the swap vehicle. Then you have to have the VIN from the swap vehicle and take the whole thing to a SMOG referee to have it signed off.
Smog testing is only applicable to 1976 and newer vehicles, so I’m not so sure about antiques. Though, I do have to keep in mind that in other parts of the country that something from 1976 surviving the rust is an antique.
