Looking for what might be a "non-standard" serpentine belt size

[thegawd]

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I will awnser that question.... because everyone deserves clean air to breath and if we all do our part, then we will have cleaner air to breath.

Iv never in my life seen the sky look like this until this year. it is smog. not from air pollution but from forest fires and it is smog nonetheless.

and another good reason is because a cleaner burning engine using all of the available flammable vapors, is a more efficient engine that will always have more power than one of an equal build that's burning half the available fuel vapors and blowing the rest out the tail pipe. same reason why fuel injection always wins over a carburetor.

clean air and a clean environment is a right of life no matter where you live.

Al

 

[MrPink]

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I will awnser that question.... because everyone deserves clean air to breath and if we all do our part, then we will have cleaner air to breath.

Iv never in my life seen the sky look like this until this year. it is smog. not from air pollution but from forest fires and it is smog nonetheless.

and another good reason is because a cleaner burning engine using all of the available flammable vapors, is a more efficient engine that will always have more power than one of an equal build that's burning half the available fuel vapors and blowing the rest out the tail pipe. same reason why fuel injection always wins over a carburetor.

clean air and a clean environment is a right of life no matter where you live.

Al

That's not from smog related anything, it is from wildfires that are currently burning, nice try.

My truck currently has 0 emissions anything on it, runs great. It's a 26yr old iron block v8 powered gas guzzler it's not going to make that big of an impact on the environment than the brodozer 3/4 & 1-ton trucks that are straight piped and roll coal every chance they get.

 

[thegawd]

I know I said that... but it is still smog.

 

[Schurkey]

If you're going to do this, at least buy the correct plugs. They're probably inverted-flare, not pipe-thread.

Here's the plugs I used
plugs on amazon

Almost certainly the wrong plugs. I don't have an exhaust manifold here to compare, but I'd not expect pipe thread when there's a air tube to seal.

Sure, you can cram the wrong plugs into the manifold, the brass is soft. Maybe not the smartest plan, though.

My truck currently has 0 emissions anything on it, runs great. It's a 26yr old

2021 - 26 = 1995. You've removed the fuel injection and the computer-controlled spark advance? Threw the O2 sensor and ECM in the garbage can?

No catalysts?

No PCV?

No EGR?

No charcoal canister?

Great job. It's 1961 where you live?

it's not going to make that big of an impact on the environment than the brodozer 3/4 & 1-ton trucks that are straight piped and roll coal every chance they get.

So you can needlessly pollute because "other" people are stupid?

Tremendous logic.

 

[geeeee89]

Almost certainly the wrong plugs. I don't have an exhaust manifold here to compare, but I'd not expect pipe thread when there's a air tube to seal.

Sure, you can cram the wrong plugs into the manifold, the brass is soft. Maybe not the smartest plan, though.

The plugs were a perfect fit, No cramming involved. Zero leaks whatsoever, the truck ran perfect with no CELs after.

 

[GoToGuy]

I know I said that... but it is still smog.

I don't want to twist your tail, but here below the border, our definition of SMOG is those particulates produced from any type of internal combustion. The photo of the L.A. basin is usually the poster photo. With it's brown blanket haze. We also have wildfires ( california hell = one side is on fire the other side anti America socialist) and the wood and brush ASH carried aloft to upper atmosphere different componets. In past history the incorrectly named wildfires were a normal cycle of normal burn and regrowth. But social engineering knowing better, trying to control nature blew everything out of balance. And you've never seen a good ol ripping forest fire? They don't burn anything in the great white North eh? What you're shocked, it can happen anywhere.

 

[thegawd]

I have never seen smog. ever in my life hope I dont have to. I also live in the middle of the great lakes and no, we dont have forest fires here because its ALL farm land or metropolis.

northern Ontario does have forest fires and right now they are burning out of control. there was a couple days there where the jetstream blew it south. iv never seen the sky look anything other than a bright blue sky.

That is my point with the pic... I hope that dosent become the norm. anyways you guys are missing the point.

anyways serpentine belt something or other.....

 

[thegawd]

dont worry.... I also live out in the country and have myself a big old burn pile that we burn once a year so dont be thinking I'm a yuppy or anything.

 

[454cid]

Are new smog pumps available anywhere? I looked on Rockauto earlier and found the valve and piping, but not the pump. My truck doesn't have one because it's Federal emissions. My Saturn doesn't either, but they often do, and they're electric, and also seem to be unavailable.

I don't see what the big fuss is about with removing a smog pump that doesn't do much even when it is working. People on boards take off cats or gut them, without a second thought, and they actually do something the whole time the engine is running. I wouldn't remove cats or EGR just because, but the smog pump and all it's piping, I would have no problem removing, especially if it was worn out or broken.

You say that GM wouln't include it, if it weren't needed..... it's needed alright, it was needed to satisfy some govt. regualtion. The govt. doesn't care if it doesn't do much. That teeny tiny little bit it's supposed to help with something is enough for them, if it became law somehow. The solution doesn't have to make sense, or be effective, it has to satisfy a regulation that the manufacturer has to follow.

 

[deckeda]

GM is not known for blowing money on stuff they don't need.

Depending on the vehicle and model year, air is pumped into the exhaust manifold to sustain HC and CO combustion into water vapor and CO2. But this isn't appropriate in closed-loop because the extra oxygen would screw-up the O2 sensor readings. In closed-loop, it's either blown directly into the catalytic converter, or diverted into the air cleaner.

If your vehicle diverts to the air cleaner, the only time the AIR system is "useful" is at startup or other open-loop operation--then the AIR system is used to directly reduce HC and CO, and also speed-up the heating of the catalyst which helps prevent catalyst plugging. ...

The setup on this truck pumps air into exhaust manifolds but does not divert into the air cleaner from what I remember. It's mostly a farm truck pulling a horse trailer, and on occasion when on the open road the cat is plenty hot by then I'm sure.