Topic: Check Engine Light vs. Smog guy

[MrBooyay]

Okay so I know there's a thread on here somewhere about smoging, but I couldn't find an answer to my question there. My  question is this, I have an 84 22r that apparently won't pass smog because my check engine light doesn't turn on, buuuut the 22r engines don't come with one from my understanding but the smog guy says his book tells him they should....so I'm confused now, what am i missing? I pulled my gauge cluster out and there's not even any power going to the bulb outlet for the CEL...

[jimbo74]

take it somewhere else

if the otehr one says it's good to go, you will nkow the first guy is a moron..... if the second guy says it is not good to go, you will know that you are supposed to have one

[mudmaster]

Must be Commifornia.

[OVRAROK]

Must be Commifornia.

you just have to know where to live, I live in a smog exempt area 

[MrBooyay [OP]]

Yea, unfortunately I'm in Cali  Buuut the guy eventually said that he could overlook the whole CEL thing, so I guess that worked out...I just gotta get it to pass the 15 mph test now...

[Snowtoy]

I have an 84 22r that apparently won't pass smog because my check engine light doesn't turn on, buuuut the 22r engines don't come with one from my understanding but the smog guy says his book tells him they should....so I'm confused now, what am i missing? I pulled my gauge cluster out and there's not even any power going to the bulb outlet for the CEL...

The CA 22r's(at least starting in '86) came with an O2 sensor and an ecu, not sure if they have a CEL.  If your 22r doesn't have an O2 sensor, and no ecu, then it is Fed emissions and shouldn't have a CEL, my '86 Fed 22r doesn't have an O2 or CEL.

[MrBooyay [OP]]

Well turns out it was just the guy I was going to.    Went somewhere else and made no changes to the truck and it passed with flying colors, so now I know who to go to!