Canadian vs. USA

[hookworm]

I have a Canadian 89 S-10 Blazer, i have been having some fuel injection problems, and have come to realize that there are some differences in parts between the two models (can/us).

My question is what components and sensors are different between the 2?

I know that the egr is different but what else?

[BlazerLT]

I have yet to hear of differences like this.

[dmbrisket 51]

my honda was builted in canada (you know this from the vin, like any other vehical) and is now driven in america, but still takes jap parts... where the vehical is assembled shouldtn have a thing to do with its parts, the engeneers wont make a change like that, only thing that is a slip possibilitie is if you have an older vehical, in canida it may be metric and the us may be the us standard system, now days all are done in metric (thank god, the idiots at auto zone dont get fractions to well) so you should be able to use canadian parts on an american truck and vice versa

[hookworm]

see i have replaced alot of parts and sensors and came to the confusion with the egr valve and solinoid. They are different, to the point where the the egr valves were very different, and the egr solinoids were also very different and of course mine was the more expensive version.

The vechile was assembeled in canada but everything in it is MPH and what not, not KmPH. So i am trying to figure out if some other sensor is messed up and giving me problems.

[rlith]

Originally Posted by hookworm

see i have replaced alot of parts and sensors and came to the confusion with the egr valve and solinoid. They are different, to the point where the the egr valves were very different, and the egr solinoids were also very different and of course mine was the more expensive version.

The vechile was assembeled in canada but everything in it is MPH and what not, not KmPH. So i am trying to figure out if some other sensor is messed up and giving me problems.

There should only be 2 EGR valves, old and current... The older style for the TBI and is vac controlled and is around 60 bux (us) the newer style used on CPI and CSFI is electronic and runs about 120 (us). Now that's not to say that different brands don't have different prices for the same part. But there is no way in hell that the canadian manufactured parts are different. Hell, even in the US, half the replacement parts I've ever gotten were manufactured in the US.

[blazee]

I haven't heard of any parts being different for Canada and the US, The only reason I could see for them to be different would possibly be conflicting emission laws.

OFF TOPIC:
I was just wondering. Is it true that Canadians say "eh" at the end of every sentence or is that just a stereotype? I see it on movies all the time.

[bigry2004]

OFF TOPIC:
I was just wondering. Is it true that Canadians say "eh" at the end of every sentence or is that just a stereotype? I see it on movies all the time.[/quote]

haha yes that is true, blazee. i took a weekend trip to canada a few months back for some snowboarding and many of them use it after their sentences. the best though was driving through the customs at the US/Can border on the way back.. well my buddy, stupidly enough, left a marijuana roach in his ashtray so we had to get out and get the truck searched. but the funniest was watching the mountie walk up to us and say 'smoke all your dope in canada eh?' i had to hold it in, but then again, i was scared shitless so i just shut my trap.

[dmbrisket 51]

get far enought up in michigan and the people do it there too, my uncle is a hoot and a holler at christmas. ey? its just part of the accent, we all have one, depends on where your at as to what type you have, i have the northen "stuffy" accent as i live in the mid west

[BlazerLT]

No, Canadians don't say "eh" at the end of every sentence.

We also don't say aboot.

[Rick Norwood]

Did you ever stop to consider someone might have given you the wrong EGR valve?

Off topic. I have a real funny story about getting busted at the Peace Bridge between Buffalo, NY and Ontario with 1 can of Pabst Blue Ribon beer in the trunk. We almost went down for smuggling beer into Canada. Don't ever mess with the RCMP!

[chcknugget]

Originally Posted by BlazerLT

No, Canadians don't say "eh" at the end of every sentence.

We also don't say aboot.

I have to agree, French Canadians don't say eh... But I have CBC and they always say aboot on that. You guys must not notice how different it sounds.

I have cousins in Sault St. Marie and they sound whacky. It's pretty much Canada up there.

I cut accrossed Canada from MI all the time and they're the friendliest people. They are always interested in talking when they see NY plates. Now I don't stop there much anymore because gas prices are so high.

[Sen Sen]

I have met people in my city that use it in every pause during a conversion..talking to people like this drive me up the wall, "eh"
But there's nothing stranger than trying to understand someone from newfoundland.
It's by far the worst spoken english ever!

[dmbrisket 51]

if you want to go by the acual english language, america has to be the worst spoken

[rlith]

Originally Posted by dmbrisket 51

if you want to go by the acual english language, america has to be the worst spoken

Watchoo means by's that? We be edumacated hear!

[dmbrisket 51]

for propor english go to great britan, we speak broken english here in the us, and we think nothing of useing doubble neggitives