I've mailed in my application today.
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Tom Young
Lafayette, CA 94549
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----- Original Message -----
From: "gary hradek" <hradek@yahoo.com>
To: "Vanagon Mailing List" <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
Cc: <tomyoung1@COMCAST.NET>
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 8:12 AM
Subject: Calif Smog Issues

> Tom,
>     There is a major advantage to a test only station
> in california.   Go to the DMV site to get the details
> but if your van is up to snuff on the smog equipment
> the state will pay $400 toward getting you smogged
> after you have spent $100.   I am guessing that you
> have already spent the $100 at vw so I would consider
> taking it back there and ask them what needs to be
> done to get this to pass in a test only station and
> can it be done for another $400?
> Keep me posted, gary
> Date:    Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:07:23 -0700
> From:    Tom Young <tomyoung1@COMCAST.NET>
> Subject: Calif Smog Issues
>
> Hi all:
>
> Took my '82 (Federal) to a Test Only station and
> failed fairly
> significantly
> in the Hydrocarbons (HC) and Carbon Monoxide (CO).
> I'd installed an O2
> sensor in the crossover pipe but was getting very
> funky readings from
> the
> sensor so after failing Smog I took the vehicle to a
> local VW dealer
> and had
> them set the basic air/fuel mixture, which they did.
> Went back to the
> Test
> Only station and tried again.  This time the HC was OK
> but the CO was
> still
> too high.
>
> The engine is, I think, mechanically sound and the
> ignition components
> are
> all in order with fairly new plugs, wires, distributor
> cap and rotor.
> I've
> also installed a Pertronix ignitor.  The catalytic
> converter is new.
> Did
> the oil change thing, brought the car in hot, etc.
>
> Question 1: At this point, it seems like the mixture
> is still too rich
> and
> the answer is to continue leaning it down.  Agree?
>
> Question 2: Since the VW dealer isn't a Test Only
> station and can't
> test
> emissions on a dyno like the Test Only stations do
> (I'm told the stress
> of
> running on the dyno tends to push up the pollutants as
> compared to the
> static idle and unloaded 2000 rpm tests) how the heck
> do you get
> adjustments
> done without just going back, and going back, to the
> Test Only station?
>
> Question 3: I've got my O2 sensor installed in the "J"
> bend of the
> crossover
> pipe, shortly after the connection to the left-side
> heat exchanger.
> Even
> after VW set the basic mixture I'm still getting
> anomalous readings.
> Sometimes when I hook up the voltmeter the reading
> will be "high" (like
> .710) and slowly drift upward.  Sometimes the reading
> will be "low"
> (like
> .387) and drift downward.  I've watched the voltage
> move up (and down)
> across the .5 volts reading and it's very languid and
> constantly up or
> down
> without the rapid up and down fluctuations I'm
> accustomed to seeing on
> my
> California vehicle.  (I've used the O2 sensor in the
> California vehicle
> many
> times to adjust the basic mixture.)  This is with 3
> different O2
> sensors, 2
> of them new.  Does any of this suggest some
> fundamental problem that
> I've
> overlooked?
>
> TIA.
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> Tom Young
> Lafayette, CA 94549
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