If your moving to NY then you may as well not bring any of the vehicles your working on. LI does Smog testing on the dyno AND Code scanning. IF any codes show up or you have a smog problem your vehicle fails. This is required BEFORE the car can be registered in NY and you have 30 days from the time you move to register it in NY. They can give you an exemption if it fails BUT only after you spend more than 800.00 to have it repaired and tested again. That is good for one year and then the registration expires. You then have two choices. Scrap the vehicle OR spend enough money to get it to pass. No other options.
Hmmmmmm... John thanks for the pin-out check-points on the computer. Will be checking there soon since I just found a ROM chip for the computer in a bag with other parts (screws and interior clips) on the floor of the truck - so apparently that's been messed with too. I'm wondering if it has a performance chip, no chip, or what. Also, I'm looking to get a small/cheep hand-held type O-scope - My old one broke a few years ago and I've not replaced it. Would sure be nice to have one right now. Elliott
Seriously, though, I've got a few scopes, analog and digital. I've actually hooked one up to the truck once, when I was building my father's toy and couldn't get the thing to lean out. You don't need one to diagnose problems on the TBI systems. Stick to the basics: Look for voltage where it should be.
Thanks NoSpam, Steve, The 87 S-10 will be smog-free (once I get the wiring issues fixed and it running in 'closed-loop'). The 96 Sonoma is fine and recently passed in MD. The 95 Saturn may be in trouble. It's fouling 1 plug every 2 weeks or so. I believe it has stuck rings on that cylindar. A prior thread discussed Restore, Greased Lightning, Marvel Mistery oil, and using these to 'clean out' the cylindars. At the time it seemed to work, but since then I've come to the conclusion that the real difference maker was rotating the spark plugs. Compression is only 75lbs on that cylindar too. So in LI that car is depending on the S-10 to be it's backup. With my wife driving that or the Sonoma I will have the opportunity to pull the engine and replace those rings (provided I can find a house or garageg with enough space to do it). On the S-10, the priority needs to be the lights right now, and if fixed a MD set of plates. The computer, etc are questionable but not as high of a priority for getting a plate in MD before I leave. If it gets a plate it becomes easier to move and park wherever it is. And though I'm going there soon, I won't be a resident in the typical 30 days... Will be living in a hotel for a few weeks while shopping for housing. I'm not sure what kind of I-net access I will have during the hotel time (other than work where I won't do usenet). Maybe I can get a cell-phone adapter for the computer - anyone know of such a thing? Last time I tried to find one it wasn't available (made me wonder if it was a homeland security squashed thing). Elliott
I tried the cell phone route to dial into an internet provider a long time ago, mainly I tried it because I was traveling a lot for work at the time. It did work but it was terribly slow. It took forever for pages to load, but maybe plain text wouldn't have been to bad I didn't try that. I don't know what your internet service is but a lot of the larger companies have local numbers in most states so all you would need is a phone line at the hotel. I use Roadrunner which has dial up service as well. Hey grab an AOL trial disc and use that until you get settled.
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