Failed smog test fuel tank not holding vacum

Up here in Shasta County they pull the cap and put it on a vacuum pump to test the cap. It's different all over CA as Mr. Grissom states.

I avoid the rush and crowds of SoCal these days whenever I can but there really is a huge difference from the '60s-early '80s that I remember. We used to live in Ventura County and after spending a day in the L.A. basin my eyes would be slightly burning and my chest felt like there was pressure pushing in on it. I whine everytime I have to take a car in to get smogged but I know it really is for the best. It has made a difference.

We have a 2012 diesel vehicle at work. It's one of the certified clean idle jobs that requires DEF in it's own little tank. We've put 74k miles on it in the last year and a half and the stainless steel exhaust tips still have the stainless showing on the inside. No soot, just bare metal. I can attest that there's no visable crap coming out of that tailpipe. We'll see in the next couple years if there's anything invisable that's nasty like in the gasoline additive MTBE fiasco.

We're literally at the very northern tip of California's central valley surrounded by mountains on three sides. Our ozone levels usually receive a failing grade in the summer and then the county gets dinged for failing to meet state ambient air quality levels.

"Ross Bell, manager of Shasta County's Air Quality Management District, said the county is at the mercy of the weather and geography when it comes to the number of days it violates the ozone levels.

Low-level ozone is created when sunlight and heat react with emissions from automobiles and other sources such as smokestacks, solvents and paint.

Surrounded by mountains on three sides, Shasta County can be an ozone incubator during the summer as it traps sunlight, heat and pollutants blown up the valley from Sacramento and the Bay Area, Bell said."

Currently the burning off of the harvested rice fields are giving us some smoky days. The price to pay to live in what is otherwise paradise. Oh did I mention that Shasta County is also the whisky tango tweeker capital of the US...that's for another post.