Luke@MillerPerformance
Member
You can have two monitors not complete for smog in Cali on 08-up for diesels. 98-07 must have all monitors complete.
CA SMOG Issue
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Golddigger
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A lot of states are trying to follow Comifornia thinking that they are following the "green" movement. Here in Utah I spent over a month fighting my county health department for my '96 7.3 to pass. When I bought it I had to replace the CAT. They wouldn't accept it saying I altered the exhaust...WTF! Finally they decided I had already done my only option besides up grading to a new 4" or 5" system. Still passed with less that 2 ppm. You are allowed 20 ppm. It's just a political money game. Costs me more to emission my diesel at a state owned facility (monopoly) than my gassers.
CyrusLoewen
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So if my pickup is an 04, how did I pass smog with my egr plugged off? I had no tunes to shut it off and the check engine light didn't pop up untill several weeks later? Do my shop do some interesting stuff or did the ecm or pcm or whatever thing does the thinking not know anythink was wrong yet???
Well that explains that discrepancy :toast:
gfulton
New member
Maybe move out of that liberal ass state........
bhudson
Member
Without a doubt. Lived out there when I was in the Corps and briefly after I got out. Everything is way overpriced. I don't miss it and can't think of a reason I'd wanna go back there
miscott
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Got the truck back 2 days later. Come to find out that there is a TSB for this. TSB 12-8-21, which requires reprogramming the PCM and TCM. Also the EGR recall that came out in January was never performed when the truck went in for service in March. Had the dealer performed he recall like they were supposed to do, I would have never had this problem. Just need to put a few more miles on the truck to get the PM Filter Monitor to set then off to the smog shop. I went to three different smog shops and no one would pass it unless all monitors were "Ready".
Luke@MillerPerformance
Member
It's not the smog shops discretion on monitors. See the following link http://www.smogcheck.ca.gov/PubWebQuery/EtBlast/PrintMsg.aspx?QryMessageKey=38964
The new smog machines will not pass a truck unless the monitors are complete per that link. However, because the smog techs are so afraid of getting in trouble for passing a modified truck, they will refuse to smog because of incomplete monitors.
Luke@MillerPerformance
Member
The new requirements took effect as of May 4th this year. Before that any diesel could have 2 monitors not complete.
The trucks we have the most problems with are the 98-07 model years. We have had 3 7.3s come through the shop running perfectly but won't run any of the monitors. Have to send them to the Referee to pass.
bhudson
Member
It's not may 4th yet and I don't live in CA and think y'all have stupid smog laws
Move to a less liberal state?
bhudson
Member
Exactly
miscott
New member
All of the monitors finally set and smoged the truck yesterday. Dude spent a good 15 minutes looking at the engine and under the truck. This whole experience has been a real PIA.
