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Yup! good old kern county. well I guess we can say this living in cali suck when it comes to moding our trucks or cars. but theres always a way. we do have to play by there rules and its not that hard to get engine swaps somg legal. just alot to deal with but in the end its worth it.
but im taking all the somg stuff out of mine.

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LUV is not just an emotion, its what you DRIVE.
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1975 luv daily driver.
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Project-soon to be revived

Not everything here is new. I have a haed time getting excited doing a smog for .3 or .4 hours pay. a oil change pays .3. I want to make money, not lose money.

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Certified pilots, looking down on people since 1903.

lol, and smog is the hardest one of the licenses to understand... 0.4 fr? That bites. Smog check only station? I think the money's in the stations that perform the smog repairs...

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1980 4X4 LUV daily driver, as stock as can be.

In Montana we have no vehicle inspections of any kind nor any need for SMOG equipment including the EGR valve. It's all coming off my '79 Luv in the next month or so...(after hunting season). I grew up in SC and we had them from waaaaaay back and they still do. In the small town where I lived I would just drive up and get my sticker on the lower left side of the windshield replaced for my $3 and drive on. That was in the late 70's early 80's. I'm sure things have changed since then with requirements. Gotta love States with no requirements or at least old vehicle grandfather clauses.

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In life there is the "Way things should be" and then "There's the way they are".

2005 Silverado 3/4T Crew Cab
1981 Luv 2WD
1979 Luv 4x4 Currently going through Open Heart and Cosmetic surgery
1995 Roughneck JetBoat
1981 Luv parts trk

being in washington state anything pre 86 in my county never has to see an emissions test station in its lifetime.

i bought it from the 4th owner but get this
the first owner babied it until it blew the head gasket, so he rebuilt the engine with the exception of the timing set.
the second owner who bought it from him never installed the timing kit which was in the truck and had it garaged for several years, the third owner bought it and never installed the damn timing kit either. so now the 4th owner and only second one to be able to drive it... i have decided to get it up and running again better than new is the goal. i am in the process of getting another engine for parts that were lost between owners (distributor, valve cover, several misc bolts,
and i figured i might as well remove the clogged up nasty looking emissions garbage that doesn't belong under the hood of that truck. what im wondering is since i plan on removing that return lines to the gas tank while im at it wouldn't simply adding a vented gas cap or a small vent from the tank solve the problem of pressure in the tank? who came up with the idea of running it to the air intake? thats rediculous is that not why we invented the vented gas cap in the first place?

enough ranting... im just wondering if anyone happens to have a picture of the engine with the emissions stuff removed so i can make sure i get everything out of there that i dont absolutely need to make the truck run

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1980 Mikado-Sold.

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