Thanks, all good points.
History of this car is it was run minimally say 200 miles per year when I got it in 2007.
I have been almost as bad running it short distance local.
I have used techron gas adative but not recently.
I did run it 30 miles before the test at 40 to 50 mph.
I'm not sure what speed it runs at 2500rpm.
I guess its worth a shot to try to revive the cat.
Could I run it at 2500 in park?
Wires, plugs rotor & distributor cap have less than 2000 miles. Would this need attention?
I tried to change all the black rubbers I could get access to.
There were some in the back.
My car does not have the electronic idle.
Its manual but not sure how that affects it.
I have applied for up to $500 worth of reimbursement for emisson related repairs. It seems best to get it fixed if I can get the money back.
These repairs have to be at state approved shops
I think I should take this back to my orig euro thread as I want to load some diagrams & pics of the vacumn hook ups.
I still may have something wrong.
My 1st inquiry is that this hos out of the manifolds is? It goes no where.
Asked Enrique 2x & have no answer.
I guess its before the cat so it doesn't seem that it would effect emmisions but I want to hook up things right.
Thansk for the details of the egr. Its possible some line or vac is loose/ cracked so still could be egr related with a good egr?
My mechanic said the egr is working so does that mean it does what its supposed to?
EGR is vacumn & think it has 2 metal tubes on either end. Its above the valve covers
I would hope Enrique would check it properly.
I'm still not sure of direction of airflow or operation of EGR but it can't hurt to try & check for buildup
This is a diagram but hard to follow
I was checking relays & red top OCR wiggles in its slot... possible intermittent connection?
Thanks a bunch!
