Exhaust Question
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I did a quick search too on Nebraska emissions testing and found NOTHING. No mention of it on the vehicle registration page which was pretty detailed about what forms a person would need to register a car, but nothing about smog testing.
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In pa, any Vehicle after 1974 needs to have ALL of its factory emisions equiptment on for a visual inspection. Any vehicle over 1996 gets put on the computer. we need inspection AND emmisions EVERY year, and on average it costs about $70 per vehicle. You are considered emisions exempt if you have owned it for a full year, and drivin less than 5000 miles in that year.
May I suggest for your problem, to just get the exhast shop to weld 3 bolt flanges on both sides of the cats they are going to install? This way you can simply unbolt the flanges when you get home, and bolt in a straight section of pipe- so long as the straight pipe also has flanges. Just a last resort solution
May I suggest for your problem, to just get the exhast shop to weld 3 bolt flanges on both sides of the cats they are going to install? This way you can simply unbolt the flanges when you get home, and bolt in a straight section of pipe- so long as the straight pipe also has flanges. Just a last resort solution
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Thing that makes me mad is that there is no emission inspectioning in nebraska, but all the shops claim i HAVE to have a Cat. Anyway i could fake my truck as a non catalyst? Any stickers or anything? The vavle cover has a sticker on it that says emissions controlled, i wonder if i went to the junkyard and found a sticker that wasnt emission controlled then slapped it on.
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It a federal law in regards emissions equipment that's why. If the vehicle came with the goods it has to retain them even though where you live may not require it.
Why an exhaust shop is that concerned about it makes me think they might have gotten busted for it at one time.
I would try to do like was mentioned above, somehow have the cats removeable or just remove them later and install a straight section of pipe.
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Why an exhaust shop is that concerned about it makes me think they might have gotten busted for it at one time.
I would try to do like was mentioned above, somehow have the cats removeable or just remove them later and install a straight section of pipe.
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As for no inspections I was in michigan a few years back, and saw about a 15 yr old S-10 Blazer on the highway that was so rusty, the front fenders were flappin in the breeze like dumbos ears! Even the roof above the side back windows had rust holes in it! They dont have inspections but they do have some vicious road salt.
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I live down here in the lower part of York county. I wish we could get out of it.
As for no inspections I was in michigan a few years back, and saw about a 15 yr old S-10 Blazer on the highway that was so rusty, the front fenders were flappin in the breeze like dumbos ears! Even the roof above the side back windows had rust holes in it! They dont have inspections but they do have some vicious road salt.
As for no inspections I was in michigan a few years back, and saw about a 15 yr old S-10 Blazer on the highway that was so rusty, the front fenders were flappin in the breeze like dumbos ears! Even the roof above the side back windows had rust holes in it! They dont have inspections but they do have some vicious road salt.
I know its for the best, its not worth getting killed over, and some people will do or drive anything as long as it rolls. My brother lives across the river in Perry county and they don't have to deal with it. I am sure it goes by population density, (emissions). Inspections I am glad they went to one time a year, back when it was every six months, it was a real pain, and sometimes hard to find a station that could get you in on time.
I know the inspection mechanics I have talked to all say if it came with them, they need to have them (cats) for inspection.
You wouldn't think it would be a big deal for the original poster who is in Nebraska running around in the corn fields. I guess if enough of them do it, it spreads all over.
PS: Remember these guys rely on their jobs to live, and feed their families, and they can't take a chance on loosing their jobs.
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I live down here in the lower part of York county. I wish we could get out of it.
As for no inspections I was in michigan a few years back, and saw about a 15 yr old S-10 Blazer on the highway that was so rusty, the front fenders were flappin in the breeze like dumbos ears! Even the roof above the side back windows had rust holes in it! They dont have inspections but they do have some vicious road salt.
As for no inspections I was in michigan a few years back, and saw about a 15 yr old S-10 Blazer on the highway that was so rusty, the front fenders were flappin in the breeze like dumbos ears! Even the roof above the side back windows had rust holes in it! They dont have inspections but they do have some vicious road salt.
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Finally, I went and met with a guy at a local shop and he told me that they prefer to say nothing about putting cats on or off over the phone to avoid, and i quote, "detection".(He made everything sound like he was undercover for the FBI or being probed by aliens.....kinda scary.) But after talkin to him face to face he said he could careless about putting cats on, if it comes in without cats, he isnt puttin any on.
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Chad is right, if I can remember right cats were put on in 78 and on, except as he said a California vehicle.
You will run into this as younger guys come up through the ranks, and the older vehicle have passed through so many hands and have been torn apart and put back together to make one truck. The information is not passed on, or is sold to a younger guy and told it is something else.
Look how many guys come on here and are confused as to what they have and usually ask for a Vin check, or ask Bill ND to help them sort out what they have.
(yeah, I know!)But to the original poster, you would not need cats if it is a 77. Unless you got that truck from Johnny Cash were it was a part from every year he worked there.
I remember working at the Ford garage, and the new vehicle were coming out with cats, and you could always tell because they smelled of rotton eggs while they set there running.
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