Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 22:47:11 -0700
Reply-To: Johnny DeVilla <johnny@JDEVILLA.COM>
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From: Johnny DeVilla <johnny@JDEVILLA.COM>
Subject: Re: California Inspection: Day 4
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Tim it doesn't sound that bad, I am missing important parts of my van,
which I am guessing they didn't put in in Arizona ie no O2 Sensor, but
with enough money and a new cat converter I have until Dec of 2004 to
worry about it. With bad compression in no3 an oil leaking all out of
the push rod seals, its time to pull the motor out anyway. Well
congrats for running the hamster wheel of owning a vintage auto.
Johnny
81 Westy
On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 07:39 PM, Aristotle Sagan wrote:
> What happened to days 2 and 3? Work mostly.
>
> So here it is Thursday. Van needs to be registered by tomorrow. I am
> working
> noon till 9 so I go down early to sit in the line at the DMV. Pay the
> regisration fee on time, smogged or not. 2 hours down at the DMV, pay
> my $44
> bucks and get my new license. This one has a picture of a guy with a
> beard
> on it. Now that's something different.
>
> Guy at the counter tells me if I get it smogged today, just come back
> and I
> won't have to sit in line for two more hours to get my stickers. Fat
> chance
> I tell him, it's already 10:45 and I'm suppose to be at work at noon.
>
> Go home, stop off at the corner repair place and ask if they are still
> doing
> inspections. Holy Smokes, they forked over for the multi thousand dyno
> tester do-gizmo, mounted right in their floor. When can you get to it?
> Now.
> !
>
> OK 35 bucks for the pretest, 75 bucks for the smog test itself. $110
> dollars!!! Better than last time if it passes.
> Pretest numbers:
> HC (PPM)
> 15 mph - 55 (max 129)
> 25 mph - 39 (max 101)
>
> CO %
> 15 mph 0.19 (max 0.84)
> 25 mph 0.24 (max 1.06)
>
> NO (PPM)
> 15 mph - 1062 (max 1292)
> 25 mph - 663 (max 1323)
>
> Not bad. He shuts off the engine. Well, do you want to run the test
> for
> real now? he asks.
>
> Sure.
> SMOG test numbers:
>
> HC (PPM)
> 15 mph - 119 (max 129)
> 25 mph - 52 (max 101)
>
> CO %
> 15 mph 0.38 (max 0.84)
> 25 mph 0.31 (max 1.06)
>
> NO (PPM)
> 15 mph - 1274 (max 1292)
> 25 mph - 416 (max 1323)
>
> Yowzer! It almost failed! Don't let them turn off the engine!
>
> So anyhowz, it passed. I went back, got my sticker, don't have to worry
> about it for another two years, only 2 hours late to work.
>
> tim in san jose
>
>
>
>>
>> Got up early today, it's the 6th of October, van needs to be
>> registered by
>> the 10th.
>>
>> Take the van (84 1.9WB) down to Bugformance in East San Jose, they
>> got it
>> through Smog last time, let them do it again.
>>
>> Walk up, ask the mechanic if he can get this through Smog. The story
>> begins...
>>
>> Well, the Smog shop I used right down the alley here just closed up
>> last
>> week, sold out to someone else. The doors haven't been open in a week
>> or
>> so.
>>
>> Hmmm. well, do you know anyone else? There's another shop around the
>> corner, but I haven't talked to them about using their equipment yet.
>> I'll
>> do that now.
>>
>> I'll wait.
>>
>> He's back.
>>
>> He says he just put new equipment in and it takes two weeks for them
>> to
>> certify it. He'll be up and running in a couple of weeks. If you
>> haven't
>> gotten through Smog by then, bring it back and we will see what we
>> can do.
>>
>> OK.
>>
>> I have a place I used in South San Jose, near where the ex lives.
>> They are
>> nothing special but will run "off-line" for me to see where I am at
>> before
>> hooking the machine up to Sacramento. I drive down, getting the van
>> good
>> and
>> hot, pull into the lot. There's a car on the machine, another one
>> waiting.
>> I
>> don't want to turn my bus off. So I walk up... there's a roller
>> assembly in
>> the floor of the shop and a Denver boot type device on the non-driven
>> wheel
>> of the car... hmmm. The operator hasn't a clue. The wheels are
>> driving the
>> rollers, the thing is vibrating llike hell, and the tester is standing
>> there, scratching his head. Not a clue, I say. I ask the guy standing
>> there
>> what's up? He says, that's my car and I've been here 45 minutes. And
>> they
>> are no closer to being finished than when he drove up. And it cost 80
>> bucks!
>>
>> Now I get it. I have majorly screwed up this time. By waiting past
>> October
>> first, it looks like my van needs to be dyno tested by complete
>> idjits. I
>> ask how long to the operator. He says an hour. I don't think so. I
>> drive by
>> another "Smog Pro shop". How long I ask? Got an appointment? Nope. An
>> hour
>> he says. I doubt it. Anyhow, I need to go to work, so I drive home,
>> take
>> a
>> shower and head off to the robots.
>>
>> Not going to be a good week.
>>
>> Stay tune for part two/three/xxx
>>
>> tim in san jose
>>
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