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Date:         Tue, 19 Jun 2001 21:20:08 -0700
Reply-To:     Ari Ollikainen <Ari@OLTECO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Ari Ollikainen <Ari@OLTECO.COM>
Subject:      '91 Carat smog test results
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As I drove into Precision Auto Tune in Palo Alto this morning to get my wife's Carat its bi-annual the smog test, the service writer greeted me with:

"I dunno...sounds like it's missing. Probably won't pass..."

Not exactly very encouraging words. I told him that Vanagons (at least mine) have a lumpy idle and that I was sure that this particular vehicle would pass with flying colors (having personally performed a tune-up, oil change and a number of coolant leak fixes, as well as setting the timing and idle speed a few weeks ago...).

After the test, he said:

"Looks like it passed after all! We had one in here earlier in the week that..."

Here are the numbers:

2500 rpm MAX allowable Average Measured Result HC ppm 0180 0020 0024 PASS CO % 1.00 00.10 0.00 PASS CO2 14.6 O2 .2 RPM 2527

IDLE RPM MAX allowable Average Measured Result HC ppm 0120 0030 0023 PASS CO % 1.00 00.10 0.03 PASS CO2 14.3 O2 0.6 RPM 0890

Wonder what the results would have been with a fresh O2 sensor? Oh, yeah...the Carat has 109K miles on it.

_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ You can't depend on your judgement when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/

OLTECO Ari Ollikainen P.O. BOX 20088 Networking Architecture and Technology Stanford, CA Ari@OLTECO.com 94309-0088 415.517.3519


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