Engine/Transmission (1994 - 1998) caught in calif smog limbo

[Regcabguy]

I beg to differ. I've lived in Alpine for 20+ years and they get smogged. 10 miles east to Descanso, however is exempt. I have in-law relations there. I have now fixed the problem by registering my vehicles out-of-state where I am in the process of moving/retiring. The comment about San Diego is right on. I was born and raised here. Very nice city/town but it has one huge problem; it's in California! Back to the problem at hand. How about locating a take-off from a later model and weld it on? If there are any numbers on it put them on top where they cant be seen. My previous '06 cat was about 12" diameter. That should impress them.

Thanks for the clarification. Where are you moving to?

 

[SRath]

Just a simple plea to all those fleeing kalifornia in droves: please leave kalifornia in kalifornia! Don't bring it with you. That state is fubar and its stupid laws and policies are contagious and terminal!

 

[Simplysmn]

Thoses that are leaving Calif just makes Calif that much better for the one's that are Staying

 

[Driftwood Ram]

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[CTaylor]

Just a simple plea to all those fleeing kalifornia in droves: please leave kalifornia in kalifornia! Don't bring it with you. That state is fubar and its stupid laws and policies are contagious and terminal!

I have to agree. If those that are smart enough to leave that leftist libtard, commie infested place make it any better for those that stay then so be it just dont bring that crap to the rest of the free country

 

[Regcabguy]

I'm a 3nd gen born and raised Californian. The problem here is massive numbers of transplants,apparently of the liberal persuasion who insist upon instituting their extreme left convictions on a formerly conservative state.



My dad told me that if it had not been for the Japanese invading Pearl Harbor and our subsequent involvement in the war,San Diego would still be our little secret.



It's a great homebase to travel from. Geographically,we've got it all.

 

[Dieseldemon]

I have several takeoff cats I will sell you 1 for 50. 00 + Freight Email me

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[SRath]

I'm a 3nd gen born and raised Californian. The problem here is massive numbers of transplants,apparently of the liberal persuasion who insist upon instituting their extreme left convictions on a formerly conservative state.

My dad told me that if it had not been for the Japanese invading Pearl Harbor and our subsequent involvement in the war,San Diego would still be our little secret.

It's a great homebase to travel from. Geographically,we've got it all.

I recently spent a few months in San Diego and met some great like-minded folks, mostly of military or retired military background. But they were widely dispersed among the bumper crop of fruits and nuts. I was too busy to get out and see the all of the sights a hayseed like me would enjoy in a big city, but I got glimpses of a few.

Mostly, though, I was pretty miserable because of the timing and what I was missing back home: My sons' state championship football season, Hawkeye football, bow season (deer & turkey), pheasant season, duck season, and all the other invigorating Fall and Indian Summer colors, smells, sounds, and weather that make the other 9 or 10 months of living in Iowa so worthwhile.

Also, running the simplest errand to Homie Depot could kill most of a day and you still wouldn't find what you went for. How do people stand being in traffic 90% of the day? How do they get anything at all accomplished?

The most fun I had in San Diego was actually the weekend I spent with my retired Navy friend and his wife at their home south of Tijuana. There wasn't much difference culturally, imo, between either side of that border except then I had good reason to feel like I was a guest in a foreign country.

Even when checking out a little night life in SD, I never even came close to passing for a native kalifornian, though, like regcab said, it did seem like everyone who was "native" was actually from somewhere else "years ago". Lots of friendly people, a few jerks, and massive social issues. Seeing advertisements for "medical marijuana" was rather stunning, topped only by the number of people who had "medical cards" allowing them to buy it. Lots of sick folks there, it seemed. Huge unemployment; the highest in the nation, I was somewhat proudly told.

And fences around EVERY single dwelling and inch of real estate?!! Seriously?!! Are those little barriers of scrap steel and wood intended to keep people out or in. . ? The only thing they really seem to accomplish according to crime reports every day there is to give the illusion to folks that they somehow live in "their own little barricaded world". It gives a very claustiphobic and uninviting impression to visitors like myself.

The best thing, though, was all the great stuff that the california gubbermint makes everyone throw away: trucks, cars, and more trucks. Stuff so pristine and preserved or so new that we only dream of finding such things in long-forgotten barns around here. Can't pass smog? "Junk it!" the state orders, and the people actually do it! No proof of insurance on file with the state? "Junk it!" the state orders again, unless of course you are one of the millions there who do not belong there and are exempt from most laws. Even more amazing is how blatantly bold the state and city gubbermint is in forcing extortion money at every turn from the citizens. There is a fee and tax and fine on everything!! And I mean high $$$, not just the 100 or 200 pesos it takes to make government officials leave you alone just a few miles south of there.

Like a save-the-spotted owl crusader, I began a personal mission of outrage and rescued a couple of really nice old chevy 4x4's and they are now happily living the long and carefree country-boy-and-truck life back here that they were meant to. So many others, though, were left to be put-down by the State... I can only feed and house so many... :{

Still, my distrust of our own "new-breed" of state legislators (imports from kalifornia?)who seem to think this either is kalifornia, or that kalifornia has actually done anything right, has prompted me to hang onto any and all "take-off" items from my trucks, including that mysteriously useless fat portion of the old exhaust pipe from my cummins dodge. It just added unnecessary weight and restricted exhaust flow to a fuel-wasting degree. I 86'd it since I believe in conserving precious resources like diesel fuel and money. The State of Kalifornia only believes in regulating and controlling every minute aspect of everyone's life that lives there legally (again, anyone who isn't there legally, or who flood by the tens of thousands back and forth across the border to kalifornia jobs every day, is not subject to any laws I could discern).

 

[Bob4x4]

I have a cat if you need one. Cali requires

Certified cats At this time there are no after army

Certified cats for our trucks

Magnaflow is working on it

 

[GAmes]

If your truck was not originally sold in California then it did NOT come with a factory cat. (Cali was also the only factory egr 12 valve motors)

That is incorrect. All the second gen 12 valves came with a cat, mine is in the garage guarding my stock muffler. :-laf



If the OP is willing to pay shipping back and forth he can use mine, but I suspect any wrecking yard that has a 12 valve truck in it can come up with a cat.

 

[BWAdams]

1998 12 valve smog? If this is the truck you have, you shouldn't need to smog it. What was the build date? Mine was 10/97, I didn't think they made a 12 valve after 12/97. I was thinking the 1/98 trucks were all 24 valve?

 

[Dieseldemon]

10/97 is registered as a 98 and all 98s are subject to the smog in cal 12v or 24v. 24valves were manufactured first in 1/1/1998 cal smog goes by year.

 

[BWAdams]

I have one and it does not require smog. Do you have additional info regarding this?

 

[BWAdams]

From DMV website


Currently, smog inspections are required for all vehicles except diesel powered vehicles manufactured prior to 1998 or with a Gross Vehicle Weight (GVWR) of more than 14,000 lbs, electric, natural gas powered vehicles over 14,000 lbs, hybrids, motorcycles, trailers, or gasoline powered vehicles 1975 and older.


Manufactured date.

 

[Bob4x4]

It also depends on your zip code,some are
Exempt

 

[Dieseldemon]

If you live in an outlying area you do not have to smog until you sell or buy a 1998 or newer and they don't care about manufacture date it is register date my truck was built in august of 97 but registered as a 98 and is covered under the smog law just like yours is.

 

[BWAdams]

Do you have anything to support your claims? I think the above statement is pretty clear. It states manufactured before 1998. Another friend of mine has a 98 12v too and we live in del mar do definitely not an outlying area. He doesn't have to smog his either. Is it possible the first time the truck was registered regardless of build date?

 

[chipster]

Do you have anything to support your claims? I think the above statement is pretty clear. It states manufactured before 1998. Another friend of mine has a 98 12v too and we live in del mar do definitely not an outlying area. He doesn't have to smog his either. Is it possible the first time the truck was registered regardless of build date?

he might not have to smog it this year but maybe next year. they go by the last didget of the VIN.

 

[Dieseldemon]

Cal Smog

From Diesel Power

All of the white areas are exemp except when you sell or buy then they have to be smoged All trucks 1998 and newer unless it weights more than 14. 000 lbs

 

[CEdwards]

WOW, our founding fathers would be sick if they could read this thread, how silly society has become. I realize this is not the place for politics but just thought I would point out the obvious. Government rules are always very unclear, sometimes just going to a different dmv can yield different results for different people.