[T2] I don't need a CAT in Cali!

[Old Volks Home]

If memory serves, Federal 75-77 Buses, while requiring an EGR system did
not require a catalytic converter and were so "stickered".

As a informational side bar, in the 75-76 Rabbit Bentley Book it
specifically stated that a converter was not required and it actually gave
instructions to legally "gut" the converter if so equipped.

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Jim Thompson
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On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Mike Soultanian
<mike.soultanian at csulb.edu>wrote:

> So every time I went to the smog guy he put down that I had a catalytic
> converter even though I didn't, and the car would pass smog.  At first I
> thought he was being nice, but it turned out that he thought the heater
> boxes were cats.  I also thought that his system was telling him that I
> needed a cat, so I figured I had to have one.
> Then recently I went to a different smog guy and I was going to bring it
> to get it smogged, but I told them I'd need to change out the muffler
> before I brought it in because they were pretty smart and would probably
> see there was no cat.  I told him that it's a federal bus and asked if I
> needed a cat, so he looked in his books and said I didn't, but said it
> really depended on the sticker under the rear engine hatch.  I looked under
> the hatch and low and behold, there was no mention of CA smog standards, so
> it turns out I don't need a cat in California.
> Anyways, I didn't know if other people knew that federal buses didn't
> require a cat, but I thought I'd mention it just in case you didn't already
> know.
>