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airschooled
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Stop worrying about pre-76 CA emissions gear and go spend your energy with friends and family.
Robbie
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SGKent 
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Joined: October 30, 2007
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Location: Citrus Heights CA (Near Sacramento)
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2022 3:48 pm Post subject: Re: 1700 rebuild questions |
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| Would he have to put that horrible smog pump arrangement on that came with ‘73’s. |
That's what i'm hearing... can I just leave it on and bypass it? |
You have to make that decision.
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Mober
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Location: CA
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2022 9:07 am Post subject: Re: 1700 rebuild questions |
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| Any special tools I should be aware of? I hate cutting my tools up and making specialty tools that i could just buy. |
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raygreenwood
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Location: Oklahoma City
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2022 11:41 am Post subject: Re: 1700 rebuild questions |
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An excerpt from what SGKent said..... 
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The smog law issue is complex..........That also includes lawnmowers, chainsaws, and.............. generators............. pressure washers etc. |
Yep....yep.....Steve.....I FULLY believe that part! No sarcasm!.....only in California....."electric- electricity generators"......yessir! Wonder what the efficiency on that bad boy is?
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orwell84
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Location: Plattsburgh, New York
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| Posted: Sat May 14, 2022 10:15 am Post subject: Re: 1700 rebuild questions |
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As I don’t live in California, I don’t know how much they would know or care whether a one year only smog pump was there or not. If you absolutely had to have it sitting there, I’m sure they would be a way to do that with the smog holes in the heads blocked off. And it might depend on the individual inspector…some guy who knows every piece of smog equipment put on every car ever who has never kissed a woman.
Inspections in northern NY are pointless and don’t look at much. Nothing like an MOT in the UK, but there was this one guy at this backwoods garage who insisted I take the reflectors off my cab doors because he did not believe me when I told them they were NOT lights. Then there was this inspector in Quebec who insisted that I weigh my bus at a quarry because the weight on my US paperwork didn’t list the same weight they listed on the Quebec paperwork. You just never know. |
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Mober
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Location: CA
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2022 9:07 pm Post subject: Re: 1700 rebuild questions |
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| orwell84 wrote: |
As I don’t live in California, I don’t know how much they would know or care whether a one year only smog pump was there or not. If you absolutely had to have it sitting there, I’m sure they would be a way to do that with the smog holes in the heads blocked off. And it might depend on the individual inspector…some guy who knows every piece of smog equipment put on every car ever who has never kissed a woman.
Inspections in northern NY are pointless and don’t look at much. Nothing like an MOT in the UK, but there was this one guy at this backwoods garage who insisted I take the reflectors off my cab doors because he did not believe me when I told them they were NOT lights. Then there was this inspector in Quebec who insisted that I weigh my bus at a quarry because the weight on my US paperwork didn’t list the same weight they listed on the Quebec paperwork. You just never know. |
I need to do a little more research regarding the smog equipment and if I need to do an initial smog before registering it. The bus has been out of registration since 94'. |
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Mober
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Location: CA
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2022 9:08 pm Post subject: Re: 1700 rebuild questions |
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| No special tools required besides torque wrench? |
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