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General Discussion \ Stock B2000 2.0 engine 1986 What can I take off?Stock B2000 2.0 engine 1986 What can I take off?
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gunderthewonder
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I am asking for an opinion of what I can remove to make it easier for me to work on my engine and still be legal and pass Arizona emission testing.
I passed Arizona emission easily about a month ago. The engine has 200,000 miles on it and the truck is all original I bought it from the original owner.
I would to remove all I can from the engine and end up with a simple chrome air cleaner and be able to get at everything on the engine easily.
I appreciate all the help I can get from mechanics who work on Mazda 2.0 engines.
I passed Arizona emission easily about a month ago. The engine has 200,000 miles on it and the truck is all original I bought it from the original owner.
I would to remove all I can from the engine and end up with a simple chrome air cleaner and be able to get at everything on the engine easily.
I appreciate all the help I can get from mechanics who work on Mazda 2.0 engines.
Cusser
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Your engine compartment is really clean and looks pretty stock.
My experience here with the beloved emissions test people (who all seem to think that they're mechanics because the shove a sensor up the tailpipe of a vehicle) is that most don't give a rat's a$$. One time one end of the "Y" pipe fell out of an exhaust pipe of Mrs. Cusser's dual exhaust Suburban, so that sucked in fresh air, diluting the reading by factor of two. When the tester got out of the Suburban, he saw that, didn't even re-insert for a retest (of course it passed).
Anyway, my experience with the B-truck is once a smaller air cleaner, or even a Weber/air cleaner/most emission stuff removed, this is what they cared about:
1. emissions numbers passed the original spec for your truck/whatever computer states
2. they don't like vacuum outlets that are capped. Most of these are underneath the stock air cleaner assembly, and some (like for optional cruise control, power brakes) may have been there from Day 1, but are now visible. So my advice is to route a vacuum hose from one capped-off port to another, so they'll think that's they way they should be, they think that a capped off port is someone trying to monkey with it.
Edit: Around the Phoenix and Tucson areas, Arizona tests all the way back to 1967 year vehicles, nothing in the rest of the state, and NO safety inspection at all anywhere.
My experience here with the beloved emissions test people (who all seem to think that they're mechanics because the shove a sensor up the tailpipe of a vehicle) is that most don't give a rat's a$$. One time one end of the "Y" pipe fell out of an exhaust pipe of Mrs. Cusser's dual exhaust Suburban, so that sucked in fresh air, diluting the reading by factor of two. When the tester got out of the Suburban, he saw that, didn't even re-insert for a retest (of course it passed).
Anyway, my experience with the B-truck is once a smaller air cleaner, or even a Weber/air cleaner/most emission stuff removed, this is what they cared about:
1. emissions numbers passed the original spec for your truck/whatever computer states
2. they don't like vacuum outlets that are capped. Most of these are underneath the stock air cleaner assembly, and some (like for optional cruise control, power brakes) may have been there from Day 1, but are now visible. So my advice is to route a vacuum hose from one capped-off port to another, so they'll think that's they way they should be, they think that a capped off port is someone trying to monkey with it.
Edit: Around the Phoenix and Tucson areas, Arizona tests all the way back to 1967 year vehicles, nothing in the rest of the state, and NO safety inspection at all anywhere.
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