chrisk@isieng.UUCP (Chris Kagen) (03/25/86)
My housemate has recently purchased a 1977 Capri, and after
working on the carburetor he is unable to reconnect the emission
control doohickeys correctly. The problem is not so much that
he doesn't remember where everything was, but that the dealer that
sold him the car wasn't sure where everything was supposed to go
either.
It may seem strange that a dealer can sell a car without having
the smog controls hooked up in a certifiably correct manner, but
telephone calls to the regulating agencies reveal that they can
do just that. If they can't find the appropriate diagrams, say
the officials, they are perfectly well in their rights to hook it
all up in whatever way seems reasonable to them.
Well, now my housemate is trying to figure out where it all goes,
and can't for the life of him find the right diagram. The Ford
manuals don't have it, the dealers don't have it, and the state
agencies don't have it. It seems that Ford was changing the
configuration of devices on a nearly weekly basis (seriously!)
and couldn't document each configuration.
Has anyone dealt with this before? I certainly don't expect any
net readers to happen to have the correct diagram in their possession,
but if you can give me a pointer to where one goes for the
information, my housemate will be very grateful. He'd rather not
pay the local Found On Road Dead dealer $50/hour to guess again.
Thanks in advance to all readers and respondents.
Chris Kagen
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