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Diesel Smog?

Posted: May 10th, 2011, 12:33 pm
by bgraley
Hey all you in CA with diesel trucks, have you been through the smog process with your trucks? Did the bill ever go through? Is it anything to worry about? I am looking at a Ford 6.0 and just stumbled uppon some smog stuff and wanted some trustworthy advice... thanks
Brian

Posted: May 10th, 2011, 4:21 pm
by Kuma
It's just Bull Shit to get more $ for government spending.
They just hooked mine up to an OBD2 cable and open the hod and stand there like they know what they are looking for. basically if you show any codes you fail, no codes, you pass.
I have 4" exhaust from turbo to tail and aftermarket air filter. I have a tunner that I am able to take it back to stock prior to the test. I didn't have a problem except forking out the doe.

Posted: May 11th, 2011, 8:25 am
by hoofarted
I have to do it in Oct. Will be removing my CCV and reverting the tune to stock for the test. Just another revenue generator for the peoples' republic. :twisted:

Posted: May 11th, 2011, 9:35 am
by bgraley
Ok cool, so not really a big deal... I am just wanting to be educated before i get into this big purchace.

Posted: May 11th, 2011, 10:06 am
by hoofarted
bgraley wrote:Ok cool, so not really a big deal... I am just wanting to be educated before i get into this big purchace.
whats done to it? what year?

Posted: May 11th, 2011, 10:17 am
by bgraley
It's an 05 F350 dually. 43000 miles. I think it is all stock. no programers. i want to add an exhaust though.

Posted: May 11th, 2011, 10:33 am
by hoofarted
bgraley wrote:It's an 05 F350 dually. 43000 miles. I think it is all stock. no programers. i want to add an exhaust though.
Low miles! Be sure to do your homework on it. 05/06 is the best 6.0 - but it's still a 6.0 - they got most of the bugs ironed out by then, but there are some necessary fixes that should be implemented to make it reliable. ford-trucks.com is a pretty good forum to poke around in.

Posted: May 11th, 2011, 11:55 am
by blownbillybob
My buddy was telling me about the fords I forget what year he said but to do any major engine work you have to pull the hole cab off the frame??????????????

What da fuk!!!!!!

They can keep dem fords I'll stick with chev!!!!!!!

Posted: May 12th, 2011, 7:32 am
by lewisclan
My truck they have to pull the cab 08.
thats a nice truck Brian

Posted: May 12th, 2011, 9:46 am
by bgraley
Thanks Jay! I'll try and get some pics up tonight when i get home... maybe not, we are taking out with the camper for a try out trip tomorrow and saturday. I have a lot of work to get done before then. the cr is almost done getting the rebuild and the camper needs a bit more work.

The truck has a utility bed that i am wanting to switch with a standard bed. if anybody knows of a place where i can look to take care of that, let me know. also if you are interested in a bed for a 350 dually let me know. it is nice, little bit of rust though.

Posted: May 12th, 2011, 11:07 am
by kdizzle
Fuck out here in arizona they throw your Diesel on the rollers put it in gear and pin that fucker till the rev limiter kicks in and hold it there :shock: :shock: first time i saw it i was like WTF are you doing to my truck you asshole! held it at rev limit for 1 min while the sniffer was testing "opacity" :roll:

Bunch of bullshit out here. Maricopa County sucks. You even have to smog your croth rockets here..

Posted: May 12th, 2011, 11:26 am
by hoofarted
Wow :shock:

I thought CA was bad! Never knew AZ had to deal with that BS!

Posted: May 12th, 2011, 6:02 pm
by Widow Maker
Phuck 'em!

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Posted: May 12th, 2011, 6:32 pm
by 2strokeforever
Fuck out here in arizona they throw your Diesel on the rollers put it in gear and pin that fucker till the rev limiter kicks in and hold it there
if someone did that to my $900 truck theyd be lucky to only be missing teeth....

maybe you guys can rig the throttle to only open 1/4 ways

Posted: May 13th, 2011, 7:17 am
by hoofarted
if someone did that to my $900 truck...

Shit, for $900, I'd buy another two trucks for backup! :lol:

Posted: May 13th, 2011, 10:09 am
by kdizzle
Widow Maker wrote:Phuck 'em!

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Nice shot. I should have my tunes sometime soon.. and next time i go in there im going to leave the smoke tune on and fumigate the entire facility. :shock:

Posted: May 13th, 2011, 6:44 pm
by Kuma
that would be great, be sure to bring a video camera.

Posted: May 13th, 2011, 8:58 pm
by arleybeer40
Thought i was gona have have to do it this year, but got my renewal in march and no smog test. Proably have to do it next year. I've heard there starting with even years then going to odd number years, mines an 03.