Greetings @carguy502 ,
As promised, I spent the afternoon in a local treasure yard. Was planning on visiting 3 yards, but 2 of them
weren't answering their phone? (Their websites said one thing, but reality is another.) Seems like all the yards
in this area are short on manpower?
Short answer first. Close but no cigar. Despite hundreds of vehicles in this yard, there was only a single GMT400-era truck in the yard -- '92 Silverado:
1992, LO5, both Manual & Automatic, "Light-Duty Trucks" GMT400 emissions sticker (But Federal EPA only)
So, you will be looking for a very similar sticker that will state that the light duty truck meets Cali emissions.
(In my next post I'll share some early 2000's GMT800 stickers to show how the stickers vary between Federal, Cali, and even E85 versions.)
And as for the whole spark plug gap debate, check out the .035" gaps specified? Did the whole
.060" (revised to .045") gaps come about with the Vortec engines?
Sorry I couldn't come up with the magic sticker, but now I have learned that just because NY adopted Cali emissions in '94,
this doesn't mean that we also ended up with the YF5 'CARB* mandated' stickers, too. The only way I'd see the sticker
you need out here in upstate NY is if a YF5 GMT400 truck had originally been ordered/bought out in Cali & then it was
subsequently moved out to NY...and many years later eventually put out to pasture.
And one last thing. I looked carefully through a total of ~40 Chevy full-size trucks in the lot (1 GMT400 and the
rest GMT800-era) ...and I didn't see a single manual transmission in the bunch? As one who's always preferred
a standard, I'm not all that surprised, for people who drive standards can/will usually keep them running no matter what.
I'll keep looking, but it seems more likely that you will find the sticker you need in a west coast or adjacent state's
treasure yard. But if nothing else we've given you some proof that these were offered for sale way back when, plus
a few RPO-based bread crumbs that you can follow.
Best of luck with that S-10 project. If you get it put together, past the CARB referee, and actually on the road please
be sure to come back and share the good news.
Cheers --
*California Air Resources Board
As promised, I spent the afternoon in a local treasure yard. Was planning on visiting 3 yards, but 2 of them
weren't answering their phone? (Their websites said one thing, but reality is another.) Seems like all the yards
in this area are short on manpower?
Short answer first. Close but no cigar. Despite hundreds of vehicles in this yard, there was only a single GMT400-era truck in the yard -- '92 Silverado:
1992, LO5, both Manual & Automatic, "Light-Duty Trucks" GMT400 emissions sticker (But Federal EPA only)
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So, you will be looking for a very similar sticker that will state that the light duty truck meets Cali emissions.
(In my next post I'll share some early 2000's GMT800 stickers to show how the stickers vary between Federal, Cali, and even E85 versions.)
And as for the whole spark plug gap debate, check out the .035" gaps specified? Did the whole
.060" (revised to .045") gaps come about with the Vortec engines?
Sorry I couldn't come up with the magic sticker, but now I have learned that just because NY adopted Cali emissions in '94,
this doesn't mean that we also ended up with the YF5 'CARB* mandated' stickers, too. The only way I'd see the sticker
you need out here in upstate NY is if a YF5 GMT400 truck had originally been ordered/bought out in Cali & then it was
subsequently moved out to NY...and many years later eventually put out to pasture.
And one last thing. I looked carefully through a total of ~40 Chevy full-size trucks in the lot (1 GMT400 and the
rest GMT800-era) ...and I didn't see a single manual transmission in the bunch? As one who's always preferred
a standard, I'm not all that surprised, for people who drive standards can/will usually keep them running no matter what.
I'll keep looking, but it seems more likely that you will find the sticker you need in a west coast or adjacent state's
treasure yard. But if nothing else we've given you some proof that these were offered for sale way back when, plus
a few RPO-based bread crumbs that you can follow.
Best of luck with that S-10 project. If you get it put together, past the CARB referee, and actually on the road please
be sure to come back and share the good news.
Cheers --
*California Air Resources Board
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