1979 dodge mobile traveler 360cl wont pass emissions

Lwiddis wrote:
Per California DMV at https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/smogfaq

"Currently, smog inspections are required for all vehicles EXCEPT diesel powered vehicles 1997 year model and older or with a Gross Vehicle Weight (GVWR) of more than 14,000 lbs, electric, natural gas powered vehicles over 14,000 lbs, motorcycles, trailers, or gasoline powered vehicles 1975 and older."

The OP is in UTAH..:S

Ignore the drivel from South of the Border!..

Even in CA there is a simple "work around".
(which should solve your Utah problem)

OP - sent you a PM.

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There is a rumble from the capitol that Kalifornistan has bore sighted RV's for a whopping carbon imprint tax. And crippling emissions testing limits.

Enjoy. The proletariat is satisfied. Most cannot deal with spouting the alphabet backward anyway.

But the RV thing is scary -- even talk about adding an energy tax for each RV site rental.

Recommendation: Keep a close eye on Stalinracmento.

Malfunction Junction. Posting freezes for 10 minutes

Like the luxury tax back in the eighties, the state wasn't satisfied with a stiff tax so they quadrupled it. And tens of millions of dollars of luxury tax fell to $0.00

The objective was not to raise money, the objective was just what they achieve - to make those vehicles go away.

Lucky it isn't from Kalifornistan.

Two classes of emission exam. The first one is bad enough. But years ago the Politburo and Central Committee designated cars of a certain ages to be GROSS POLLUTERS. Mandatory. $157.00 ANNUAL FEE.

Like the luxury tax back in the eighties, the state wasn't satisfied with a stiff tax so they quadrupled it. And tens of millions of dollars of luxury tax fell to $0.00

Proving the state legislators are pretty fartsmellers.

My old Dodge Spirit had been on the lowest 10% of polluters test results wise and I was paying eighty dollars a year. Now I pay ZERO meaning not a cent. Politicians tend to be revenue artists. Like failed lawyers and over billing.

You can sniff a little of what's in store RV wise by paying attention to the policies of the newest breed of US legislators.

The 4-horsewomen of the Apocalypse. Radical? Bezerkeley CA now has a law -- No new natural gas permits. It's all electric and the legislature just passed a bill that's going to tax people more than $500,000,000 for the damages of last year's fires.

Keep an eye out for pending legislation for your state with regards to anything that can affect the liberty of RV'ing. Like A.O. Cortez said. "Airplanes are horrible polluters and should be banned" Take the midnight train to Paris or Tokyo?

Usually the state capitol's newsprint online carries pending legislation. You know sane ideas like turning natural gas energy generation into "all electric"

Imagine the cost of RV'ing in your state becoming so expensive, that when asked only the financially comfortable could respond. If I ever decided to go that way I have people that would do it for me".

if its just a idle tailpipe test raise the idle and take some ign. timing out of it if you have a shop with a exhaust analyzer it would help

maillemaker wrote:
According to Google, in Utah all vehicles from 1967 on need emissions testing.

I wonder if you can tag the vehicle in another state to get around the emissions stuff?

Many states require that the vehicle "appears to be tested." (think tax revenue) However, you may be able strike a deal where it doesn't have to actually "pass" or get special exemptions for a period of time.

You can "get around the emissions stuff" for a while, but eventually questionable vehicles get ticketed for something where they are clearly being regularly operated ON a public roadway. That's where the problems begin. (the plates get run through a database) In this day and age you can run, but you can't hide forever.

Chum lee

According to Google, in Utah all vehicles from 1967 on need emissions testing.

I wonder if you can tag the vehicle in another state to get around the emissions stuff?

In defense,I loved my 21 ft '77 class C w/ a 360. Just out of warranty, put a Holley 4 barrel, hooker headers, and a distributor advance curve kit, and it was one of the best running RVs I ever had, and would pull 10 MPG anytime I kept my foot out of it. And pulling 6% donner Pass w/ my 19 ft I/O to Tahoe, would still get 8-9 MPG on the round trip. Wish I still had it,.........so there !!

I tried but obviously, he wasn't into learning. I spent a lot of time learning the LA3 engine quirks.

Californiastan is so far to the left it completed the circle but the occupants are convinced they made a 180-degree u-turn, and are going backward. Bassackwards is more like it. Proposition 13 the Gann Jarvis act slashed property taxes. When the Central Committee rediscovers twenty to ninety thousand dollars per year revenue waiting, half the state will be living in their rigs paying only a nominal ten to twenty thousand dollar tax living in their novelle micro homes. Imagine the revenue possibilities of ten-story parking structure filled with RV's in an abandoned mall site. San Francisco, parking structure. NO COMMUTING!