RE: [DML] Failed Emissions Inspection. AGAIN!!!!!

["Scott Mueller" <scott.a.mueller@xxxx>]

[MODERATOR NOTE: The tricks suggested here will not actually repair the damage to your car, and might make it worse. Obviously you'd be better off inthe long run if you actually got the car to run right. - Mike Substelny, DML moderating team.]

A couple of old tricks you can try.

1-While engine is running, use a spray bottle and mist water into the
intake. You will have to rev the engine to keep it running. The urban
legend is that you are steam cleaning the combustion chambers.

2-With only a few gallons of gas in the tank, preferably gas from a high
volume station, add a good amount of gasoline drying product, alcohol based.
Alcohol will "absorb" any water in the tank. The extra alcohol will alter
the tail pipe emissions. I had an old V6 Capri that burned about a quart of
oil every 100 miles. This car was ready to die. By juicing the gas tank
with lots of Alcohol drying agents the car passed California emission
testing with flying colors.

Good luck.

Try at your own risk.

Your exhaust will bring tears to your eyes with all of that alcohol. Also,
a bottle of Chevron Techron will do wonders.

After you pass the test, run lots of fresh gasoline through the car so that
you do not destroy the rubber parts in your gas tank.

Your mileage will vary.

Scott Mueller
002981
RNDOLA


-----Original Message-----
From: therealdmcvegas [mailto:DMCVegas@xxxx] 
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 6:31 PM
To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [DML] Failed Emissions Inspection. AGAIN!!!!!


Once again, I have failed my annual smog test! 935 HCppm @ idle, and 1135 
@ 2500 RPMs. Last year, I had to go thru this same fiasco, and performed yet

ANOTHER 30K mile servicing. Plugs, wires, cap, rotor, ignition coil, balast
resistor, and CO adjustment (plus a new Control Pressure Regulator from 
DMCH 2 months before). After that, the output was 11 ppm on the 
hydrocarbons. Now, a year later, I'm right back where I started!!!!! Other
than 
regular oil changes & about 12K more miles on the clock, nothing, I repeat 
nothing has been done to the engine. So what gives. Yes, I know I need to 
pull a spark plug to check for fowling, but I am really sick and tired of
having to 
tune the motor annually just to get it to pass. That an a line of
incompetent 
mechanics before me scrwed up, and inserted 3 of the plugs in crooked! This
I 
discovered the first time I did the servicing myself.

So the question is what can I do to get my car to pass emissions, and quick?

Will a small CO adjustment take care of things?, and what about those 
gasoline additives that guarantee you to pass emissions testing? I know that

there is no such thing as a mechanic in a bottle, but I am indeed curious as
to 
just what in the hell do these chemicals do? I'm not trying to take the
cheap 
way out of things here. It's just that I am exhausted on having to keep
shelling 
out so much money every year.

Any help, or at least ideas would be greatly appriciated!

-Robert
vin 6585 "X"