Failed emissions test

Thanks, I'll look at that as well. Hopefully tonight. That said, I'm not sure about a vacuum leak sicne the seems to idle normally and it's my understanding a vacuum leak will cause a high idle speed. We shall see.

if you get the vac lines fixed and it still fails get the small bottle of methyl hydrate from the hardware store (paint section)

pour it in the day before you go

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Ian, the first place I would look would be the throttle body. There are several fittings on it, and one of them may have worked loose. That TB is one I pulled from a junkyard and wasn't in perfect condition, but when I got the car back in 2003 it had an eta intake manifold and throttle body on it, which really choked it down at high RPM...it had eta fuel injectors too, it was quite odd. Once I swapped the relevant i parts back on, it ran so much better, and was one of the first things I did

I would also suggest cleaning the dog snot out of the throttle body if it's not a huge PITA, and if it wasn't done before it was put on the car. A buddy in Chatt. replaced everything under the sun trying to get his (former hong challenger) Civic to pass, until another buddy recomended cleaning the TB. Passed with flying colors.

plance1 wrote: These state mandated emissions tests are a crock. Thankfully we did away with them in Kentucky. I distinctly remember waiting in line while a guy in a new Cadillac had to subject himself to these stupid tests when his car was brand new! Did I mention his car was brand new? Just an absolute tax on society. I do recall passing with flying colors when I owned my 79 ford pickup truck. The same truck, two years later failed miserably at a different testing garage... not because of emissions, they wouldn't even test it because it did not have a cat. There was some arguement (probably started by me) that the truck did not originally have one but I don't recall the details or if that was accurate. All I knew was it didn't have a cat on it when I bought it and it still passed. When I explained that even without the cat it still passed, I was ignored. Another reason for the failure? The gas tank neck was modified so that the larger, leaded nozzles could fit back in the day. When I explained that since leaded gas is no longer sold at gas stations and therefore this was a non-issue, I just got another long arguement. Then I went back to the original testing garage that passed it two years earlier. The lady on duty refused to come out of her office and other workers refused to do anything either. You would think they would stagger their lunches, you know for the sake of the taxpayers. After knocking several times, she unlocked the door, came out, didn't say a word, taped a handwritten sign on the door that said "At lunch, come back later" and then proceeded to lock the door and continue doing nothing. At that point I had enough. Our testing was by birthday, if you were born in an even year, you were tested that year and the test was good for two years. I went ahead and promptly sold the truck to my wife for $1, since she was born a year ahead of me, she didn't have to have it tested until her birthday, the following year. When her birthday came, she was nice enough to sell it back to me for, you guessed it, $1. We did this for a few years until the state wised up and pulled the plug.

good thing you don't live in NC... each of those transactions would have cost you 3% of the blue book value when you sold/reg the truck

I haven't had much time this week to dig into it... I was able to putt it out of the garage and try the propane test. The AIC valve fitting to the manifold looks a wee-bit loose, but it passed the propane test. Started to test the o2 sensor, but my multimeter is dead... again...

...and now I have to replace front wheel bearings on one of the MINI's... in addition to already having a torn-apart Volvo on the garage... and she wonders why I wanted to sell the BMW...