Re: [DMCForum] Failed emissions...
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Re: [DMCForum] Failed emissions...



Have you tried that "Guaranteed to pass" stuff? It's about $6 a bottle.
Might be worth a shot.

Farrar

Andrew wrote:
> I think I saw this one coming.  I disabled my idle speed ECU a couple of
> months ago because the car wouldn't idle smoothly with it running, and
> then forgot all about it before dropping the car off for inspection.  Of
> course, it failed idle emissions pretty badly--hydrocarbons and CO.
>
> I talked to the head tech at the shop and told him where the microswitch
> is to get the idle ECU to kick on, so he's going to go push it and see if
> the car magically passes.
>
> He says if that doesn't work, he wants to lean out the system until it
> passes (and then he obviously doesn't care what I do with it once I get it
> back).
>
> He's a capable guy who has worked on some DMCs before, although never on
> the DMCH performance engine.  He knows his stuff, though.  Think I should
> let him do it, or tell him hands off?
>
> -andrew
>
>
>

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