Has the title reads , is that time once again. Took the truck for a 100 mile run yesterday morning , cruised her at 80 the whole way, than straight into the shop. Good to go for another two years!!
ehh, that reminds me I've got until the end of next month to do mine. One reason I bought the 75! Is the high speed trip the trick to passing with better numbers?
You still running a Cat? I bought a high flow cat for my 5th gen and was told to do the same thing before heading into the smog station.. still have my doubts about passing tho..
Driving the vehicle for a good while at a steady speed gets the cat nice and warm and on newer vehicles gets the monitors reading right so the test goes smooth
CARB is really clamping down on aftermarket parts. You need to find a "lazy" tech who doesn't bother looking under cars. Good luck, though; BAR and CARB coming down hard on techs, with 'undercover cars", etc. Over the years, I've used 6-7 different smog check places all over LA County and they've all been annoyingly careful. Any aftermarket parts are going to need a CARB E.O. number. Very few (if any?) high flow cats have them AFAIK. It's the visual inspection that's the PITA. Any shiny new parts will be a red flag to the tech. Good luck...
Depends on the smog location and what you mean by 'high flow cat'. If you are in California, you gotta have matching EO numbers. I've had many places straight up refuse to smog my truck even before i have a chance to pop the hood. They see an old truck that might fail for this reson of the next, and they don't want that on their record.
Just get a bolt in exhaust section made that will be your cat delete. Slap the cat in every 2 years for the test and done
I have both a 93 and a 75 My truck has an aftermarket high-flow 2”Magnaflow CAT on it. I put it on when my stock one was stolen off the truck at night, about 15ft away from where I was sleeping - pretty sure they used a Milwaukee cordless hydraulic shears by the look of the cut marks. I guess it’s legal, installed at a shop and I do recall some paperwork regarding CARB stuff for the DMV or whoever Anyway, I think I got it back in like 2013 and so far it’s been passing smog. I felt like the numbers were close last time which has me concerned. Also this truck does burn a little bit of oil too
I've got the 86 toyota pickup, and a 2012 chevy colorado. The toyota passes with much better margins than the chevy. If things are working right, you should be fine. If ya fail, ya probably have problems worse than a smog check.
Catalytic converter thief is on the rise. Don't want to make it any easier to steal. Hoping no one thinks my flex joint is a cat. I know thieves have made the mistake before.
I heard an awful racket the other day... neighbor's prius had its cat jacked. Sounded almost as pathetic as the person who stole a prius' cat!
This literally seams to be the easiest, most economical and less time consuming option. I'd hate to get ride of my 2.5" cherry bomb setup!
I've only smogged this particular truck once, nd I had a 'Lazy tech' pass it.. it never had a cat! But Im going to own this thing for a loonngg time, minus well make it pass emissions. Looks like I'm going to have 2 exhaust setups since I'm here in SoCal.
