Can I convert my 82' FED/CANADA to a CALI emissions and vacuum hose configuration? It's a total nightmare and I'd have to believe I need about 1/2 of that tangle under my hood... Can I just follow the 3D vacuum line diagrams and pull & plug lines then chuck things that serve no purpose in a California configuration?

Rebuilt/Rebushed Factory National Carb
new plugs
new plug wires
new rotor
new distrib cap
replaced most vac. lines with new ones

Truck still fast idles like crap and surges

 

Don't know why you'd switch TO a cali configuration if you're not in california. Cali config is much more complex and prone to problems. Your best bet to reduce lines is to do a weber carb and an EGR delete. Should clear up most (if not all) unnecessary vac lines.

PS, your 82 looks so much like mine its almost ridiculous

 

I thought the CAL was less complicated. Take a look at both the 82' & 87' under-the-hood labels (82' is the wrinkeled one). Am I a bonehead and the CAL doesn't stand for California but something else?

I get you on the Weber, Just couldn't afford it. The rebuilt/rebushed was only $150.00...

 

two totally different engines, one is fuel injected the other has a carb (the block is the same but intake is different).
if you take the '87 engine and put it in the '82 truck you can use the '87 emissions. to be legal in a smog tested truck the engine in the truck must be the same or newer than the body of the truck and the emissions from the newer engine used.

 

Yes Cali model is MUCH more complex.

 

My 82' & 87' both have carburetors. The photo of the two under-the-hood labels are from both my vehicles (wrinked one is the 82'). What makes the 87' so simple?

 

I believe Toyota made carbureted 22R engines until 1995 or so, with the fuel injection option (22R-E) starting around 1985.

Maybe the California diagram is showing additional components, on top of what already exists for Federal/Canada? I didn't try to compare the two drawings side by side...

 

I think that CAL doesn't stand for California on the 87' hood label. The carb'd 87' I have is so much simpler than my carbed 82'. Wish there was a simple way to convert the 82' into something that makes sense.

 

CAL stands for California on the '87. I have both '87 and '88 carbureted California smog trucks and an '82 that is also California smog. The '82 has way more vacuum lines than my other trucks. It appears to be a lot more complicated than the diagram of your Federal smog '82. To simplify your '82, the conversion would have to be from '82 Federal smog to '87 California smog.

From what I can tell, California smog is more computer controlled, which might make for a few less vacuum lines depending on year. You cannot just take off parts to convert to California smog. You would have to change the wiring harness, ECU, distributor (or possibly just vacuum advance), add an O2 sensor plus the other electronic contols, and I believe the carburetors are different between Federal and California. It is doable, but probably not worth the effort. If you still want to convert it, I have a computer and wiring harness from an '86 that I will sell you.