I think you must live in an area where they're enforcing an emissions test.
Here in State College, we're not required to pass a test..  At least not
yet. Thank goodness.. I suspect I'd wind up doing some work to the '84.
Diesels are exempt, I believe.

Bradley Flubacher
State College, PA
'81 diesel rabbit
'82 diesel westy
'82 diesel van
'84 GL wasserboxer

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
Of James T.
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 10:25 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: High CO2 emissions

Hello, I've got a '85 Westy with the stock 1.9L wasserleaker that has
~195,000
miles on it. Moved from KS to PA - in PA they have emissions tests, which
mine
failed. Limit for CO was like 1.5 and I had a little under 4. O2 sensor was
hovering around .5 volts. I installed a new one last year but it did not
appear
to do much. Also, the critter idles high at 1600-1700 RPM - no matter what
you
do with idle or mixture screws - it goes right back to same RPM and same CO2
reading. Will replace idle stabilizer this weekend. Anybody got any other
ideas
on how to reduce
emissions?

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