Emissions Tricks?
01-27-2004, 10:04 AM
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Anyone ever hear of dumping methyl hydrate to thin out the fuel before you go for an e-test?
We use methyl hydrate at work to unfreeze air systems in our trucks, and it turns out 90% of the methyl hydrate is the same **** as gas line antifreeze.
A mechanic at work told me for my 40 litre tank, dump in 2 litres of methyl hydrate and it should bring emissions down far enough to pass..
Who else has heard of this?
We use methyl hydrate at work to unfreeze air systems in our trucks, and it turns out 90% of the methyl hydrate is the same **** as gas line antifreeze.
A mechanic at work told me for my 40 litre tank, dump in 2 litres of methyl hydrate and it should bring emissions down far enough to pass..
Who else has heard of this?
01-27-2004, 10:32 AM
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Methyl hydrate is alcohol based or something the mechanic said.. 
I was curious if you guys had heard of the methyl hydrate trick.
And this is for my stupid daytona. I gave her a tune up and she still runs a tad rich, so I was thinking of trying this "trick" until I can solve the problem. I need plates on this badboy and they won't let me plate it until I pass..
I was curious if you guys had heard of the methyl hydrate trick.
And this is for my stupid daytona. I gave her a tune up and she still runs a tad rich, so I was thinking of trying this "trick" until I can solve the problem. I need plates on this badboy and they won't let me plate it until I pass..
01-27-2004, 10:40 AM
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Originally Posted by ColinRX7' date='Jan 27 2004, 08:32 AM
Methyl hydrate is alcohol based or something the mechanic said..
I was curious if you guys had heard of the methyl hydrate trick.
And this is for my stupid daytona. I gave her a tune up and she still runs a tad rich, so I was thinking of trying this "trick" until I can solve the problem. I need plates on this badboy and they won't let me plate it until I pass..
I was curious if you guys had heard of the methyl hydrate trick.
And this is for my stupid daytona. I gave her a tune up and she still runs a tad rich, so I was thinking of trying this "trick" until I can solve the problem. I need plates on this badboy and they won't let me plate it until I pass..
01-27-2004, 11:27 AM
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We have been over my car with a fine toothed comb after the rebuild and it would not pass in Texas.
I had to take the Bonez Hi flow cats off and put stock cats on then it passed. We checked everything thoroughly and can't figure why it won't pass. It comes up for inspection again in March and I don't know what I am going to do then.
I have all the emissions crap still on the car. Air pump, ACV, EGR Valve, Good TPS. ECU shows no problems. All the solenoids are in working order. No vacuum leaks.
The only thing I can think of now is maybe it is just an O2 sensor going bad. Is there a way to test the O2 sensor? Maybe with a volt or ohm meter?
I had to take the Bonez Hi flow cats off and put stock cats on then it passed. We checked everything thoroughly and can't figure why it won't pass. It comes up for inspection again in March and I don't know what I am going to do then.
I have all the emissions crap still on the car. Air pump, ACV, EGR Valve, Good TPS. ECU shows no problems. All the solenoids are in working order. No vacuum leaks.
The only thing I can think of now is maybe it is just an O2 sensor going bad. Is there a way to test the O2 sensor? Maybe with a volt or ohm meter?