spencergt66
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Absolute ******** and here's why. There's not one fleet manager, truck driver, equipment operator, etc that I know that likes having them on their truck or machine. They reduce power and increase fuel consumption. They also cause downtime when the systems are not working. How do I know? I was dispatcher for a large civil general contractor last year. We had several trucks and pieces of equipment that had these things and they were broke down much more than the ones with the older systems. In order to get real users to use this garbage, the EPA is having to bribe them with grant money to equip their machines and even then, many owners are not going along with the program.
The only reason these things are coming is because people are too damned complacent and bow down to every dumb-assed regulation that comes down the pike. This all started in Commiefornia and it's spread like a cancer across the country because people buy into this ********. And this is one reason why new truck sales have plummeted in recent years. The people who know don't want it. City people might like it, but the rest of us don't. I'd love to see how much more this crap costs the owner over the life of a vehicle, as well as long term damage to the motor because of the restriction. My 17 year old truck with 180k miles on it runs great...will a DPF equipped truck be able to say the same? Not without a lot of money in replacement parts and repairs.
No I wouldn't put my dinner plate under my tailpipe; common sense dictates that. That would go for a diesel or a gas. If you think your exhaust after the DPF is so great, do the same. Guess what...you'll still get trash.
But if you want to keep your emissions crap and feel better about yourself, that's fine. I'm going to keep buying older trucks that I know will keep running without band-aids. You'll know it's me by the thick black cloud of death that I fart on you when your DPF is plugged and you're broke down on the side of the road.
G's get over your self i'm not implying that the system is an improvement my point was that yes the truck runs cleaner and that i would be trying to optimize my mpg with out ripping off all of the emissions equipment and by the way my jeep had over 100k miles with all the dpf and egr equipment never touched and never had one problem with anything on the engine
I look at it this way when Catalytic converters came out for gas cars people ******* and cut them off and said that it was stupid but now no one touches them cause the technology has improved and things are quite reliable sure there are some people that feel the need to remove emissions equipment from everything they own the point im trying to make is that soon you will see emissions for everything on the road and removing your dpf will probably be a federal offense just like removing your catalytic converter from a gas car.
Does a gas car run better with out a cat or egr? yes. And will a diesel run better without a dpf cat and egr? yes. Thats not my argument its not even an argument so just let it be. I really have no idea why people are getting so upset over this im not implying or suggesting anything just trying to get other peoples input on their 6.7's that still have all the oe components