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• Can't get '80 Vanagon to pass emissions
  Historical mailing list - Grant Bessom
  Fri, 1 Jun 2001 08:43:45 -0400
  ...It was too high on both Carbon Monoxide and the hydrocarbons. Any suggestions? Is there a way to correct/trick it so that I...
• More pedantic propane trivia...
  Historical mailing list - Gnarlodious
  Thu, 1 Nov 2001 21:42:05 -0700
  ...But when you buy "propane" it as actually a blend of hydrocarbons depending on the quality of refining. Of course the first to boil...
• See two aitch five oh aitch and Water
  Historical mailing list - Pensioner
  Tue, 22 May 2007 21:29:09 -0700
  ...Remembering my organic chemistry a bit, the energy from burning hydrocarbons comes from breaking the C-H bonds. The larger the number of C...
• Re: Failed Smog Test
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth D Lewis
  Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:11:24 -0500
  ...2.21 pct vice the standard of 1.2 pct, and Hydrocarbons of 276 PPM, vice the >standard of 220 PPM....... >Thanks > >Tom F. >
• Passed Smog Test!
  Historical mailing list - Dave Kautz
  Mon, 5 Feb 96 12:03:01 PST
  ...My trepidation was unwarranted, it turned out - Measured Max Allowable Emissions Results --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hydrocarbons 96 ppm 350 ppm Pass Carbon Monoxide 1.9% 5% Pass...
• Re: Mobil-1 shortage
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:15:02 -0500
  ...what most people consider synthetic (PAO/ester basestock, which start from hydrocarbons other than crude oil). Castrol Syntec, for example, is made from petroleum...
• Re: Emissions Problems/90 Vanagon Syncro
  Historical mailing list - Gary Stearns
  Tue, 24 Oct 2000 08:07:39 -0400
  ...It failed the emission test here in WA, but only on the hydrocarbons at idle. It passed the hydrocarbons at 2500 RPM. It also...
• Failed Smog Test
  Historical mailing list - Forhan, Thomas
  Fri, 22 Jan 1999 09:40:42 -0500
  ...2.21 pct vice the standard of 1.2 pct, and Hydrocarbons of 276 PPM, vice the standard of 220 PPM. The engine had...
• Re: 4th heater core burst in 1 year!
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Tue, 10 Jul 2001 21:11:40 -0500
  ...engine was both hot and > >> cold) for traces of combustion leakage (hydrocarbons in the cooling > >> system) and found nothing. > >> > >> He also found no excessive...
• Emmissions help.
  Historical mailing list - Jamie Smith
  Tue, 9 Sep 1997 10:03:05 EST
  Hi all, My '86 Westfalia has failed the CT emmisissions test (for high hydrocarbons and CO), and the VW service station I took it...
• Re: ES-12 Refrigerant - Caution
  Historical mailing list - Steve Cotsford
  Fri, 28 Jun 2002 21:29:40 EDT
  ...It is as was suggested, a blend of hydrocarbons, loosely put, propane and butane. It is illegal for use in automobiles in some states...
• Re: Re; Solar power your VW
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 1 Nov 2000 23:00:25 -0500
  ...my counterculture is showing -- using photovoltaics >allows one to avoid burning hydrocarbons and thus trashing the planet more >than it already is. It's...
• Power Balance Test ?
  Historical mailing list - Christopher M. Smith
  Tue, 10 Dec 1996 10:53:35 -0800 (PST)
  ...high Hydrocarbons (pre-cat converter), so they performed a "power balance test". I missed the gist of what the tech was explaining, but did...
• Re: Help Educate Me
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:58:07 -0500
  ...The simplest cats only deal with mice I mean hydrocarbons, and it's this ability to promote the burning of stuff that's otherwise...
• Re: Cooling System Pressure
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Wed, 15 Mar 2000 11:48:23 EST
  ...If any hydrocarbons are present run don't walk from this one >> Steve: The pressure test is most conveniently performed using the PRESSURE CAP...
• Aircooleds and Airplanes
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Drahzal
  Mon, 17 Jul 1995 15:10:41 -0500 (EDT)
  ...one solution is to enrichen the mixture... ..It seems that unburned hydrocarbons take heat away with them as they are exhausted out the manifolds...
• Re: 4th heater core burst in 1 year!
  Historical mailing list - Leon Korkin
  Mon, 9 Jul 2001 10:05:27 -0700
  ...engine was both hot and > cold) for traces of combustion leakage (hydrocarbons in the cooling > system) and found nothing. > > He also found no excessive...
• Re: ??? Time for Head gasket ?????
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 11 Aug 1997 13:55:54 EDT
  ...My friendly neighborhood mechanic used hie exhaust analyzer to sniff my overflow tank for hydrocarbons. This would be the confirmation. As it turned out...
• My 85 just passed Maryland emissions inspection
  Historical mailing list - roger sisler
  Wed, 5 Jul 2006 11:31:15 -0700
  ...If anyone is interested, the results were as follows:Hydrocarbons- .4602 GPM ,where state standards are 2.8000 GPM------- Carbon Monoxide 3.8427 GPM...
• Re: California Smog Trouble - 1987 Syncro
  Historical mailing list - Trooz
  Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:16:29 -0700
  ...California Smog Trouble - 1987 Syncro > > I was having my local mechanic check our van and pretest it. > Won't pass; he > says hydrocarbons way...
• Re: Mobil-1 shortage
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:11:05 -0800
  ...what most people consider > synthetic (PAO/ester basestock, which start from hydrocarbons other > than crude oil). Castrol Syntec, for example, is made from petroleum...
• Re: Running on Tap Water (was Re: Attention California Vanagonites)
  Historical mailing list - Charles Schwager
  Wed, 17 Jul 2002 07:37:29 -0600
  ...The result is a gas containing one-third carbon monoxide and two-thirds (useless) nitrogen, plus small amounts of unburned hydrocarbons, CO2 (undesirable) and...
• Additives for emmission reduction
  Historical mailing list - Terry Tan
  Fri, 16 Aug 1996 03:24:11 -0400 (EDT)
  I have been offered an additive that is guaranteed to reduce the hydrocarbons at the exhaust to pass the state emmission inspection. Cost is...
• Re: emissions inspection failure(Utah)
  Historical mailing list - Joshua Van Tol
  Wed, 9 Jun 1999 18:46:48 -0500
  ...He was able to get the CO down fine, but the Hydrocarbons don't >> seem to drop, especially at 2500 rpms (part of the...
• Emissioins test failure
  Historical mailing list - David M
  Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:43:02 -0700
  ...Results were Hydrocarbons (HO) grams/mile .75 limit 1.60 (passed), CO grams/mile 25.73 limit 15 (failed), NOX grams/mile 2.91...
• Emissions failure Nox
  Historical mailing list - David M
  Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:03:10 -0700
  ...It passed on hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide by a wide margin. There is only one VW specialist in the Phoenix area that I know...
• Re: Emmissions help
  Historical mailing list - Christopher M. Smith
  Wed, 10 Sep 1997 11:04:24 -0700
  ...In WA they > check CO and Hydrocarbons at idle and under load. Ditto! for California, only you can add NOX testing too! for SMOG2...
• Re: exhaust gas into coolant system
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Tue, 9 Nov 2010 14:44:02 -0800
  ...No difference...However, I didn't have an exhaust gas tester to tell me, chemically, that there were hydrocarbons in the coolant...So I...
• Re: Spare Fuel Pump Saves the Day
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 5 Apr 2013 18:37:34 -0700
  ...A 5 > second spray into the pump intake while running it off battery should do > it, and no worries about leaking stinky hydrocarbons all...
• Re: Fuel injection diagnosis
  Historical mailing list - WFryer
  Thu, 30 Mar 2000 06:43:15 -0800
  ...Syncro. It didn't pass emissions testing right off this year. Hydrocarbons were just a little over the limit at idle, but everthing was...
• Re: vanagon exhaust analyzer for home use
  Historical mailing list - Craig Oda
  Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:18:12 -0700
  ...They look like they measure CO, but not hydrocarbons and NO. I'm in California. My big concern is passing SMOG. Can someone on...
• Re: WAS Low Temp Radiator Thermo Switch "Better"?
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Thu, 24 May 2012 18:49:02 -0700
  ...Possible overloading of the > CAT from excess unburned hydrocarbons. B-but since it ain't easy or inexpensive to pull the thermostat, do we...
• Emission Test Readings
  Historical mailing list - Chris Pittack
  Thu, 23 Jan 1997 14:02:37 -0800
  ...Oh the speed...the power! Anyway...the test revealed the following: Hydrocarbons CO CO+CO2 Limit: 220 PPM 1.2% >6.0% Idle: 97...
• Re: Detecting R134a Leaks
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Sat, 15 Jul 2006 23:18:02 -0400
  There are sniffers for hydrocarbons (I have one), but I'm not sure if it would work for R134a. They aren't cheap ($200...
• Re: Oil pressure warnings, WAS: Mann Oil Filter and lifters
  Historical mailing list - James
  Sun, 2 Mar 2014 23:34:25 -0500
  ...hydrocarbons that they're most worried about - makes sense, carbon monoxide isn't nearly as serious a pollutant as the various aromatic hydrocarbons in...
• Re: Head Problems (87 GL) How bad is it.
  Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
  Tue, 26 Jan 1999 20:02:55 EST
  ...A trip to your friendly mechanic(as I did) who can use his exhaust gas analyzer to sniff the overflow tank for hydrocarbons. Our...
• Re: Head leak
  Historical mailing list - dylan friedman
  Sun, 5 Aug 2007 13:58:39 -0700
  ...be done? I have no coolant in the oil and no hydrocarbons in the coolant and no apparent loss of performance. Hmm. . . Brendan 84...
• Re: Bad Gas Saga Update
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:40:04 -0400
  ...blobs in the gas may have been microbes feeding on the >hydrocarbons in the fuel. They are mentioned in this link, which is >cited...
• Re: Bleeding Air problems
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 1 Feb 1997 08:38:49 PST
  ...Another thing to check for is hydrocarbons in the expansion tank. My friendly neighborhood mechanic used his emission tester to "sniff" for these gasses...
• Re: Cut you spark plugs
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 27 Dec 2001 13:51:28 -0500
  ...The catalyst functions to adjust the small amounts of hydrocarbons (burn them to H2O and CO2), nitrogen oxides (reduce them to nitrogen) and carbon...
• Air Cooled 2.0 : High Hydrocarbon (smog) Parts Check?
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:10:15 -0800
  ...It failed smog for high Hydrocarbons. Don't know if this was for the idle or "driving" test. If the van has a cat...
• Re: gutted catalyctic
  Historical mailing list - Michael Modl
  Wed, 5 Apr 2000 01:43:17 EDT
  ...Although vanagons do have a high hydrocarbons at IDLE before the CAT in which the CAT will reduce. I do have more power with...
• Continuing Cold Stall Problem - HELP!!!
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Mon, 14 Apr 2003 18:54:52 -0400
  ...Obviously the 87 is running rich at cold start...I can see the black smoke...I can smell the excess hydrocarbons....and the engine...
• Re: My 85 just passed Maryland emissions inspection
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Wed, 5 Jul 2006 17:17:53 -0400
  ...It must have been those new Bus Depot plug wires that fooled them. > > If anyone is interested, the results were as follows:Hydrocarbons- .4602...
• Re: Failed Smog Test
  Historical mailing list - David-M
  Thu, 21 Jan 1999 14:56:30 -0500
  ...2.21 pct vice the standard of 1.2 pct, and Hydrocarbons of 276 PPM, vice the > standard of 220 PPM. > > The engine had...
• Re: Emission Failure - Excess Hydrocarbons - Oxygen Sensor?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Dalton
  Fri, 28 Apr 2000 10:45:46 -0700
  I got my 1980 through by realizing it had problems after high rpm runs while back at low idle. Solution was to jack up...
• Re: got to get ready for emission testing
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:28:06 -0800
  Sudhir - I find if I DON'T change the oil before going to the test, my Hydrocarbons (HC) are too high. I make it...
• Re: EPA and Vanagon Emissions
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:42:33 -0700
  ...So, the short chain hydrocarbons in gas have a lower molecular weight than CO2, which has a molecular weight of 44. Obviously, the weight...
• Re: '87 Failed emissions test now PASSED
  Historical mailing list - Richards, Andrew
  Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:27:38 -0700
  Well, on the second time through it passed with flying colors. Hydrocarbons on the first go were over 500 and only 55 on the...
• Re: Emissions (CO) still out...
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 17 Oct 1995 23:04:41 +0500
  ...Cetin David Schwarze writes: [snip...] > High HC (HydroCarbons) is a sign of running rich. DO ask the experts, > cause this guy is wrong. CO...
• compression ratios for '87 WBX
  Historical mailing list - Gary Shea
  Wed, 1 Sep 1999 13:13:05 -0600
  ...a local emissions-o-matic joint and it failed with high hydrocarbons (337 vs max allowable of 220) at idle. CO is fairly high...
• Re: 4th heater core burst in 1 year!
  Historical mailing list - Paul Cavanaugh
  Fri, 13 Jul 2001 19:08:00 -0400
  ...engine was both hot and >> >> cold) for traces of combustion leakage (hydrocarbons in the cooling >> >> system) and found nothing. >> >> >> >> He also found no excessive...
• Re: Can't get '80 Vanagon to pass emissions
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Fri, 1 Jun 2001 21:44:48 -0500
  ...It was too high on both Carbon Monoxide and the > hydrocarbons. Any suggestions? Is there a way to correct/trick it so that > I...
• Re: Smoker's Car: Fix using Ozone
  Historical mailing list - Jim Akiba
  Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:20:52 -0400
  ...The free oxygen > > oxidizes (go figure) the nasty smelly > > hydrocarbons in the air. > > > > Don't breathe ozone, though. Bad for > > the lungs. > > > > I have...
• CARB Certification
  Historical mailing list - Bill Marshall
  Thu, 28 Mar 2002 15:17:12 EST
  ...the tailpipe, rev it up and down, and measure the fumes. Hydrocarbons, Nitrous oxides, Carbon Monoxide, etc. Pass or fail. They also pressure test...
• Re: Over heating problem
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 9 Dec 1997 18:49:29 -0500
  Have a leak down test and a hydrocarbons in the coolant test performed. This will tell you weather or not you have an internal...
• Re: Emission Failure - Excess Hydrocarbons - Oxygen Sensor?
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Fri, 28 Apr 2000 08:18:46 -0700
  I am dealing with the same problem, and mine is due to a slight miss at all speeds, idle to whatever. This is generally...
• Re: Emissions Problems/90 Vanagon Syncro
  Historical mailing list - John Koloski
  Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:47:47 -0400
  ...It failed the emission test here in WA, but only on the hydrocarbons at idle. It passed the hydrocarbons at 2500 RPM. It also...
• Re: Hello, new here. Mechanic question
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 14 Feb 2014 19:43:59 -0500
  ...Excess hydrocarbons is caused the fuel not getting burned before it leaves the exhaust. This can be due to a mixture problem, a "lean...
• Re: Vanagon emissions
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:04:58 -0400
  ...Mine was tested recently and came in at (grams per mile) Hydrocarbons > 0.34/limit 3.88, CO 1.78/limit 59.97, NOx...