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tRustyK5

tRustyK5

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Got the old 6.2 finished up and running this morning. Took me about forever, I swear I'm getting much slower at doing this stuff. Took 20 seconds of cranking to get the lines primed, then it fired up and ran rough for 5 seconds or so until the rest of the air went away.

Runs good, no leaks.

Finally we'll be back to two vehicles again. It was getting a little irritating sharing the mini-van. :doah:

Rene
 
tRustyK5 said:
Got the old 6.2 finished up and running this morning. Took me about forever, I swear I'm getting much slower at doing this stuff. Took 20 seconds of cranking to get the lines primed, then it fired up and ran rough for 5 seconds or so until the rest of the air went away.

Runs good, no leaks.

Finally we'll be back to two vehicles again. It was getting a little irritating sharing the mini-van. :doah:

Rene
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Good now I should get off my ass and get my burb running. :o
 
I just got back from the insurance place. Because I imported this truck from another province I had been told I was exempt from emissions testing for a year. Well that was in March...

I get there and they tell me that E-test is required before they can insure me. Some mumbo jumbo about being exempt for up to a year or however long your first policy is.

Fags.

Anyways, I know for pick-ups you can increase the GVW up to 5001 kgs and be exempt from the E-testing. So, I upped it.

Up yours ICBC and Aircare!! :D

The pick-up is now washed, clean, running good, exempt from E-testing and insured. Woohoo!!

Rene
 
tRustyK5 said:
I just got back from the insurance place. Because I imported this truck from another province I had been told I was exempt from emissions testing for a year. Well that was in March...

I get there and they tell me that E-test is required before they can insure me. Some mumbo jumbo about being exempt for up to a year or however long your first policy is.

Fags.

Anyways, I know for pick-ups you can increase the GVW up to 5001 kgs and be exempt from the E-testing. So, I upped it.

Up yours ICBC and Aircare!! :D

The pick-up is now washed, clean, running good, exempt from E-testing and insured. Woohoo!!

Rene
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So you increased the GVW but you have to pay more for weigh fees, right?
At least in CA you do, I have reduce some of mine to pay less since i never put anything in them.
:o
I will even make one of my pickups an extended blazer with a chalet on it and remove the weight fee altogether, it will still tow fine being a crew cab frame and running gear but I will save $300 a year.
:D
 
Yeah, I pay more 'road tax' but avoid having to deal with the emissions testing. I'm not saving any money, but what I am saving is a metric assload of hassle, time off work and all for something in the midst of being scrapped here. As soon as the emissions testing crap goes away I'll drop my GVW back down to something more normal.

The insurance lady asked me if my truck could physically carry that much weight...and I was honest and said yes. I never bothered to tell her the bumper would be dragging and it would probably be unsafe. :p:

Rene
 
tRustyK5 said:
Yeah, I pay more 'road tax' but avoid having to deal with the emissions testing. I'm not saving any money, but what I am saving is a metric assload of hassle, time off work and all for something in the midst of being scrapped here. As soon as the emissions testing crap goes away I'll drop my GVW back down to something more normal.

The insurance lady asked me if my truck could physically carry that much weight...and I was honest and said yes. I never bothered to tell her the bumper would be dragging and it would probably be unsafe. :p:

Rene
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Rene..just curious, what type of emissions test would they have put it through? a smoke opacity test? is the test being phased out?
 
Yeah, opacity test on a loaded dyno. Test duration is about 3 minutes, and finishes up with a WOT pull from 5 mph to 65 mph on a simulated hill. :rolleyes:

Max opacity is 30%...

The whole emissions testing thing is being phased out here. The reasoning is that there just aren't enough older vehicles to justify the expense.

My Jimmy used to fail that test until I fabbed up a throttle stop limiting WOT to about 65% of max. The only real reason my Jimmy used to fail was the opacity would spike each time they shifted gears. The test and the results are heavily geared to a vehicle with an automatic. Realisticly they should ignore the spikes and pass the truck. What they did instead was fail my truck because of the spikes. :mad:

Paulie's truck appears to have been mildly tweaked. 'J' code intake gaskets, EGR port under the EGR blocked off with a freeze plug, and I'm 95% certain the fuel rate has been turned up as well. I actually get a fair amount of smoke at anything over 1/2 throttle. I wasn't about to go piss around trying to get Paul's old truck to pass if it had been turned up...especially since all I needed to do was up the GVW on my insurance. :D

Rene
 
Before I left Colorado to go back to AZ I made sure I re-registered the K5 for another year in CO so I didn't have to pass AZ's emissions tests when I got down here. It isn't technically legal to have CO plates & tags & and AZ insurance & address but oh well. The truck is registered and insured. :D

I have about 9 months to get the K5 to pass e-test in AZ again. All I really need is a new exhaust system and some motor tuning and I should be golden. :laugh:

Harley
 
Does AZ do a dyno test, or is it just a sniffer and a visual?

Rene
 
Do they buy you dinner first...or least offer a reach-around? :p:

Rene
 
I honestly believe that this is the first time I've heard of somewhere being tougher on something stupid than Kalifornia.

My jaw is honestly hanging wide open right about now that y'all are talking about having to smog a diesel. That's about the only thing I don't have to smog in this forsaken dump of a state and why I'm start to acquire them.

Granted, first one is an 86 Ford F-250 (I SWORE I would never own a Ford...:doah:.) Next up is most likely going to be the Burb I was asking about as, worst case, everything will fit nicely in my '74 K5.

Ok...just had to toss in my shock that you have to smog a diesel. Sorry to hear about that.
 
That's in used vehicles. Why can't you buy a diesel VW Jetta in CA? It's some silly new smog requirements for new diesel cars. From what I understand the law passed or became effective for less emissions before they figured out exactly what the new requirements would be:rolleyes::rolleyes::mad::mad::doah:
 
BKinzey said:
That's in used vehicles. Why can't you buy a diesel VW Jetta in CA? It's some silly new smog requirements for new diesel cars. From what I understand the law passed or became effective for less emissions before they figured out exactly what the new requirements would be:rolleyes::rolleyes::mad::mad::doah:
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So the new diesels now have to be smogged in CA?
Good thing I never buy new :D


Rene:
I would do the same, just giving you a hard time.:p:

By the way the diesel engines were my favorites since I found out about them in my teen age years, but I got to love them so much here in CA because we don;t have to smog them.:bow:
 
tRustyK5 said:
Yeah, opacity test on a loaded dyno. Test duration is about 3 minutes, and finishes up with a WOT pull from 5 mph to 65 mph on a simulated hill. :rolleyes:

Rene
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Everytime I take diesel to opacity test, I wonder why they don't do it on a dyno. They just put tranny in neutral, and rev it to max and keep it there for a couple of seconds. That sounds just...bad :mad: :mad:
 
No rev limit? Wide Open Throttle:eek1::eek1::eek1: In NEUTRAL? :eek1::eek1::eek1: That is bad:mad: I'd affix a throttle stop to the cable before I'd let some nut bar do that again.
 
BKinzey said:
No rev limit? Wide Open Throttle:eek1::eek1::eek1: In NEUTRAL? :eek1::eek1::eek1: That is bad:mad: I'd affix a throttle stop to the cable before I'd let some nut bar do that again.
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On a diesel you can do that no problem, that is why the governor is there.
Some military 6.2 engines had a 4500 RPM governor.
I wouldn't make it a habbit but lots of people drive it for hours up to the gov limit.
 
Yeah, it'll run all day at the governed limit of 3600 rpm...

As for doing an opacity test in neutral...:haha: :haha: :haha: :haha:
It ain't gonna smoke without a load on it, you guys have it quite easy!!

Rene
 
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