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Moved here from Kansas City recently and am trying to get my FJ40 licensed here in Colorado. I need to find a restrictor for the fuel neck on my Cruiser. Any suggestions?
...I took my rig to the Castle Rock testing location they immediately gave me the name and number of a guy in Aurora that I needed to contact to get the instructions that would tell them how to even test the vehicle...
Thanks for the help guys. I hope to actually make it to the February meeting so I can join the club.
This whole licensing deal has been an ordeal from the start. My FJ40 has a brand new Chevy V8 with Fuel Injection from an 89 Chevy Pickup. For starters when I took my rig to the Castle Rock testing location they immediately gave me the name and number of a guy in Aurora that I needed to contact to get the instructions that would tell them how to even test the vehicle because of the engine swap. Well I made the drive up to Aurora yesterday afternoon to let the guy look at it. He filled out the paper work and one of the things that he put in the instructions is that I needed a fuel neck restrictor. He also suggested that I get Antique or Collector plates so I can avoid all this in the future. So because it is in the instructions that is why I have to get one. Totally stupid because you can even buy leaded gasoline at a filling station anymore. You'd have to goto an airport to buy it and why would I want to pay $5 or more per gallon of gas? I also had to get a CAT installed on the exhaust.
I would do the cheap insert Ige mentioned and be done with it.
Well I found the restrictor that I was needing. JK Automotive in Englewood is apparently the only one in the whole state of Colorado that has these little gems. They look like a throwing star with a hole in it and are made of spring steel. You basically insert it into the Filler Neck through the Gas Cap Opening and then wedge it into place. The spring steel drives the points of the restrictor into the Filler Neck. With this in place I will be heading down to the Castle Rock inspection station in the morning. Hopefully I will meet up with success.
That's too bad. An original 1978 with the factory 2F does not need a restrictor or a cat, they weren't required until 1979. Glad you got passed though, congrats!He filled out the paper work and one of the things that he put in the instructions is that I needed a fuel neck restrictor. <snip> I also had to get a CAT installed on the exhaust.