I tried every trick in the book to get my old 93
Dakota to pass, but NOTHING worked. I believe this was
about 1999 or 2000, when the truck has 140,000 miles
on it.
I tried a complete tune up, new converter, new air
filter, oil change, and I even swapped out the FMS
#19s for thge stock injectors.....failed, failed,
failed!
I even bought a bottle of that Emission Pass Plus, no
luck. We just ended up plating the truck as an 11,000
pound GCVW vehicle and no longer have emmissions or
inspections.
Good Luck!
Kyle
'04 Dodge Ram Quad Cab 3500 4x4 Cummins
--- Jason Bleazard <dml@bleazard.net> wrote:
>
> Looks like it's not a good week for smog testing.
>
> My '95 V6 (142,700 miles) just failed its test as
> well, I'll list the
> details below. They tell me it needs a new
> catalytic converter, for
> starters. That was replaced 6 years and 61,000
> miles ago.
> Unfortunately, there's only a 5 year warranty on the
> $525 replacement
> part, I think this time I'll just go with the $80
> one at Autozone with
> the lifetime warranty. That was an expensive
> lesson.
>
> Here are the other ideas I have. First, I don't
> think they warmed it up
> before testing, unless they think just letting it
> idle is sufficient.
> The odometer only had 1 more mile on it after the
> test than it did
> before. Ambient temperature today is +3C (37F).
> Add that to the fact
> that it had been sitting in the driveway since
> December 21, and I think
> they should have done more of a warm up
> (unfortunately that didn't occur
> to me until I got home).
>
> Next thought is the oil. That was changed 1778
> miles ago on October 20.
> I checked it before taking it in, and the level
> was up, but it did
> look fairly dark. I'll probably change that as well
> before the re-test.
>
> Anything else?
>
> Here are the numbers:
>
> driving limit idle limit
> HC ppm 83 (Fail) 52 115 (Pass) 200
> CO % 0.42 (Fail) 0.29 0.51 (Pass) 1.00
> NO ppm 1078 (Fail) 735 N/A N/A
> RPM 1792 (Valid) 612 (Valid)
> Dilution 14.8 (Valid) 14.1 (Valid)
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Jason Bleazard http://drazaelb.blogspot.com
> Burlington, Ontario
> his: '95 Dakota Sport 4x4, 3.9 V6, 5spd, Reg. Cab,
> white
> hers: '01 Dakota Sport 4x4, 4.7 V8, Auto, Quad Cab,
> black
>
>
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