Mike,
Why take the car back for another try now? Have you not heard the
good news that CT is scrapping its present (insert other adjectives here
) emissions test program?
The good new is that it is to be replaced, in six months or so, with
another program that is to be operated by competent people, in about 300
stations, instead of the uniformed lackeys that now staff the fifteen
inspection stations that are here to serve the fourth most populous state
in the country.
To address your particular failure, I learned through a series of
failures of my '72 GT that temperature affects the two things tested, CO
and the other one (NO?) The emissions tend to move oppositely when
temps change, so if the call is close, engine operating temp can affect
the reading.
I forget which is which, but if, say, car is OK on the shop's tester
at a given temperature on the temp gauge, if the temp goes up one of the
emissions rises and the other falls. Back when I still had some faith in
the integrity of the testing stations, I learned to park the car with
engine shut off and restart just in time to get it into the sniffing
station with the temp gauge at the point on the gauge where the engine
had satisfactory readings in the shop. Once I learned the trick, the
car would pass w/o its air pump. The explanation for the casting on the
thermostat is that it was for the OEM alternator.
Unfortunately, that procedure has no effect on the cretins staffing the
places, the ones who drop the car into 1st w/o using the clutch and
confuse 50 mph with 5000 rpm. Have you noticed that the car owners are
confined to a concrete-block cell in which an armed police officer is
stationed, during the time their vehicle is being mishandled on the test
rollers? Ever wonder why?
Bob
'72 GT, now exempt
'87 S-10 that passes only when taken to the station by my blond wife and
daughter
'52 TD, also exempt
On Thu, 2 May 2002 16:34:56 -0400 "Mike Janacek" <mjanacek@snet.net>
writes:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Janacek" <mjanacek@snet.net>
> To: "Chuck Renner" <crenner@dynalivery.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 4:33 PM
> Subject: Re: weber question
>
>
> > Chuck,
> > Since others have addressed the carb questions, I'll tackle the
> emissions
> > ones.
> > My '79 easily passed emissions (rolling road) here in CT when it
> had the
> ZS
> > even though the car had no cat and a frozen air pump. Last year
> just after
> > the yearly test I changed to HS4's and just two days ago went for
> the
> test,
> > again with no cat and frozen air pump. Failed on the CO level, but
> other
> > readings were very low. Strange thing was that I did check CO with
> my
> > Gunstons CO meter and it showed CO to be within tolerance (maybe
> it lost
> > calabration). Now have new/rebuilt air pump on order and will
> retest
> within
> > a couple weeks.
> >
> > Mike
> > '79B
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