bigbluefj
Honorary Canuck Member
And i say it again i'm sure glad i don't have to go through that!!! Good for you Tim Glad your done with it ..
Kevin
Kevin
Oh joy, P0401 is back... (and how 80's fail emissions)
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Tim, I think you answered your own questioning by saying you practically emptied the fuel tank of the old gasoline and added a new tankful with a little bottle of Lucas - next to nothing. Oxygenated fuel has a real short shelf life so keeping the gas fresh is important. Really glad you got the job done, finally, and won't have to repeat the situation for another two years. I wonder how much stricter the regulations will be by then? 
Well I still have holes and dents in the exhaust, still have rattles, I still may want to route that pipe over the frame. But at least now I don't have to get it all done by next weekend.
no kidding.I wonder how much stricter the regulations will be by then?
Maybe we should all chip in on a small lot in Weld county..
60wag
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After all the hassle I had getting my old 60 to pass some years ago, I still get a racing heartbeat and sweaty palms whenever I take a vehicle in to test. I think your new numbers show how sloppy the diagnostic equipment is - lower CO should mean higher CO2. Anyhow, glad to hear it passed. I do wonder what the heck she was staring at under there - maybe she's a jeep owner and was shocked by the stout drive line?
Kevin the irony is if we lived 20 minutes north we wouldn't have to do this.. it's just because we're in the metro area. Same for Corbet out in Durango, they don't have to deal with this either.
Jeff I don't think she typed in numbers, but she clearly had to buy-off on some type of visual inspection. Maybe I was a special case because it's a re-test?
Bruce I know what you're saying about CO2 vs. CO, should be an inverse relationship right? Been a while since I balanced an equation, but I still get the principle.. how can they both go down
nuclearlemon
Hard Core 4+
...then the gal comes in to say sorry folks, in all our imcompetence, we broke all the all wheel drive rollers.
fixed it for ya
I know where there's a lot in Summit County for sale.
Did you say Roller Girl? If that is the case they can bring the testing station down here.
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LXBRADY
Hard Core 4+
In my best Joey Lawrence "WO"
So I got stickers today.. since I was 3 months late had to pay a 3 month penalty of $25/month.. so $177 was my total bill for registration. The only good part of the late fee is my new renewal month is now March, not November.. so I do get a full year starting now. Had they back dated this to November and still stuck me with a fee I'd have been a little torqued off.
3 months is the cutoff. When I registered back in Jan the plates were a year and a half old but the DMV said that 3 months is the max they'll charge
Does that hold true for both the "penalty" and taxes? I thought I read somwhere where the penalty is capped but that the taxes are not
I paid the same as nakman, 177 but my car was unregistered for a year and a half. Stupid thing is, I'm going to reregister in AK in abut a month.
nuclearlemon
Hard Core 4+
ok, since a lot of people have posted their "results" here, here are mine.
in 2007, i had a seriously beat up rig that the emissions had been pulled off of. i did the following things before testing it in 2008.
new vsv, cleaned egr mod filter, caps, plugs, rotor, cap, oil and air filters, new oil, 2 cans of heat and welded in ONE magnaflow aftermarket cat. p.o. had the original first cat cut out and went from the 2 1/2 head pipe to 2" that went down, sideways and up over the frame, then back all within a six inch stretch.
the first page is my results then
since then, i've put around 12k miles on it, i removed the p.o. section of exhaust and put in flex for now (which does leak), replaced injectors (had issues), replaced fuel filter, replaced fuel sock, replaced air filter, cleaned out the tube through the intake manifold for the egr. two days ago, i put seafoam in both the fuel tank and engine and ran about 150 miles (til tank was low). filled with 91 octane, changed oil and oil filter...here are todays poor results. same station as last time. i did notice a fail on the inspection...they must've figured out it takes two cats. hard to see the hc...1.2177 and the limits are 2.0
in 2007, i had a seriously beat up rig that the emissions had been pulled off of. i did the following things before testing it in 2008.
new vsv, cleaned egr mod filter, caps, plugs, rotor, cap, oil and air filters, new oil, 2 cans of heat and welded in ONE magnaflow aftermarket cat. p.o. had the original first cat cut out and went from the 2 1/2 head pipe to 2" that went down, sideways and up over the frame, then back all within a six inch stretch.
the first page is my results then
since then, i've put around 12k miles on it, i removed the p.o. section of exhaust and put in flex for now (which does leak), replaced injectors (had issues), replaced fuel filter, replaced fuel sock, replaced air filter, cleaned out the tube through the intake manifold for the egr. two days ago, i put seafoam in both the fuel tank and engine and ran about 150 miles (til tank was low). filled with 91 octane, changed oil and oil filter...here are todays poor results. same station as last time. i did notice a fail on the inspection...they must've figured out it takes two cats. hard to see the hc...1.2177 and the limits are 2.0
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nuclearlemon
Hard Core 4+
Try 2
nuclearlemon
Hard Core 4+
Passed! I added second cat to pass visual, dumped 2 bottles of heet in. So the only fail I've had in 20+ years of emissions was without heet
hc .6705
co 1.9567
n0x 3.4611
hc .6705
co 1.9567
n0x 3.4611
Bikeman
Hard Core 4+
Good to know. Will try that this fall.
Since we are documenting Emissions results
Took Sarah's 80 for testing yesterday. First place the all 4 wd bay was broken
Second place off of Colorado and County line rd had a short line
Passed with flying colors
Last year, did a full tune up wires and everything
Prior to the test, I added 2 bottles of heat/fuel injector cleaner and filled it up with Premium. Drove around for about 20 miles first. I also had a new gas cap in the bag in case it failed, it didn't
Took Sarah's 80 for testing yesterday. First place the all 4 wd bay was broken
Second place off of Colorado and County line rd had a short line
Passed with flying colors
Last year, did a full tune up wires and everything
Prior to the test, I added 2 bottles of heat/fuel injector cleaner and filled it up with Premium. Drove around for about 20 miles first. I also had a new gas cap in the bag in case it failed, it didn't
