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| - Glad this guy is right around the block from me. I believe they will check your vehicle for free and let you know of any potential problems. He doesn't rip you off and the prices are competitive. He will, of course, give you some pointers and let you know of other potential problems as well (I still need to have them check out my oil leak; I think it's coming from the rear main seal).
Last year was a doozy, though, trying to pass emissions. Failed 6 times altogether. AJ was cool about it, though. Apparently, my brake booster was messing up the vacuum, so he told me I needed to replace that, so I went and bought a new brake booster, and installed it. After that, one of the guys there (Tony I believe, who has done most of the work on my dad's van and my truck) found that my carburetor was messed up from bad gas (which I got at a little hick town filling station up by the Mogollon Rim).
Although my uncle was able to do carb rebuilds, I had AJ do it instead (labor was a lot of money, of course). Most of the stuff they did on subsequent emissions test failures was free, though. I did have, in one instance, a spark plug loosening from the block and came undone, so I was running on 7 cylinders and didn't even know it (luckily it didn't ruin my engine). The next day, I took it in and it passed.
Tony didn't hook up the HEI distributor's electrical completely, though, and after passing emissions, it came loose, and my truck stalled and wouldn't start. I popped the hood and saw it dangling, and thought I hooked it up right, but I guess I was wrong.
I had it towed to their shop, dropped off the keys (as it was after closing hours), and got a call early the next morning that that's what it was, so they didn't charge me for that, even though I had already passed emissions and that's all I went to them for in the first place.
This year, I took it through emissions and it passed with flying colors on the first try. I'm just never going to stop at a random, no-name gas station in the middle of nowhere for now on.
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