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Curbkrawler said:
My 16 did. Came up on the little LCD screen stating it was in regen and what percentage the DPF was blocked. After a few miles of driving (and the % going down) it said complete and the dash went back to the normal speedo. Had never seen it do that before.
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What trim package? Mine is a Laramie and has the different dash than the tradesman/big horn edition and doesn't have the LCD screen you're talking about.
 
Otto M@n said:
What trim package? Mine is a Laramie and has the different dash than the tradesman/big horn edition and doesn't have the LCD screen you're talking about.
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Mines a Laramie. The little screen between the two circular gauges. Maybe it's not LCD.
 
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Curbkrawler said:
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Interesting. I have never in my 4 years of owning my truck seen that :laughing::homer:

I can also see you don't tow much since the estimator on your fuel range says 455 miles. Mine sits at 312 miles to empty pretty much always after a tank refill :laughing:
 
I can tell you that when I did the emmissons recall for my 3.0l EcoDiesel, the new flash made it almost un driveable with tons of turbo lag, and it would go into regen every 100 or so miles, and the MPG went down to 21 from 24. Fuck that, so got a GDE tune, MPG to 27 and regen every 500+.
 
Otto M@n said:
I'm really indifferent to the whole emissions thing. If they had a system that didn't choke the trucks power and benefitted the environment, I'm all for it. I don't mind the cost of DEF at all. I mean, new trucks are $80,000. If you're averaging ~500MPG for DEF use, over 100,000 miles driven, that's 200 gallons of DEF needed. Supertech is what, $10 for 2.5 gallons? So that's (80) 2.5 gal containers I'm buying over the course of 100,000 miles. $800 in DEF to drive 100k miles. Sure, $800 is a lot of money. But factoring in the cost of what it takes to drive that truck 100,000 miles (truck payment, insurance, diesel, fuel filters, maintence, etc), the cost of that DEF in relation to the rest of the running cost of it is really insignificant.

But if the shit is going to cost me 5 grand to replace the bullshit when/if it fails, you can fuck right off and I'll bluetooth emissions it.

It also will cost, what, $2500-$3k to fully delete the truck? EGR delete, new exhaust, etc. From a sheer cost perspective, it's cheaper to keep the emissions bullshit (assuming it doesn't shit the bed, obviously).
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My 15 Duramax had a failing 9th injector, caused the DPF sensor to fail and the DPF clogged. The service emissions warning came on once then went away after driving on the highway. Came back on in the middle of nowhere and then 40 miles later went into limp mode,while towing my trailer. LImped it through 50 miles of hills in Idaho to the nearest dealer at 15 mph. Spent 6 nights at a hotel waiting for the parts to be located and installed. $3k to the dealer, $800 to the hotel, no rental car place in the town so I walked everywhere that week. I could have grabbed a U-Haul truck I suppose.

DEF prices don't bother me. When not towing, the 25% mark comes up with a "you have 900 miles left" warning. Oh ok, no biggie, that is like 1,200 miles per gallon of that stuff. When towing I get about 1,000 miles from my 5 gallon tank. I fill up DEF at the truck pumps for under $4/gal like 5-7 times a year. Cheap. Annoying because of the fill location, but cheap.
 
Otto M@n said:
Interesting. I have never in my 4 years of owning my truck seen that :laughing::homer:

I can also see you don't tow much since the estimator on your fuel range says 455 miles. Mine sits at 312 miles to empty pretty much always after a tank refill :laughing:
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x2...except I drove my truck for 9 years. Still drive it once in awhile, although it was deleted pretty early on.

Never saw it on either of my 5500's either.

Or my '23 yet.
 
Otto M@n said:
Interesting. I have never in my 4 years of owning my truck seen that :laughing::homer:

I can also see you don't tow much since the estimator on your fuel range says 455 miles. Mine sits at 312 miles to empty pretty much always after a tank refill :laughing:
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My 2018 Laramie Longhorn megacab doesn't show me that either. It only has 26000 miles on it, but i have never seen or noticed a regen. I declined the recall flash due to what I have read about it.
 
JD Mark said:
I've also owned several 7.3s and they were good engines, but had a lot of minor issues as well, especially if you live in the rust belt. Especially the bodies and oil coolers.

I'd like to build a 5.9 again...mine burnt up just outside of Vegas, but just for fun. I love my '14 and '23 with the 6.7s.
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Oil coolers are a bitch. Mine only lasted about 510,000km before it started leaking. Oil pan started to weep at about the same mileage.:flipoff2:
 
Otto M@n said:
Interesting. I have never in my 4 years of owning my truck seen that :laughing::homer:

I can also see you don't tow much since the estimator on your fuel range says 455 miles. Mine sits at 312 miles to empty pretty much always after a tank refill :laughing:
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Not mine. My truck has never seen any fuel economy above 12 mpg since new… :lmao: Just snagged a pic from internet
 
Squamch said:
Oil coolers are a bitch. Mine only lasted about 510,000km before it started leaking. Oil pan started to weep at about the same mileage.:flipoff2:
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We were lucky to get 100K MILES out of them.

Oil pans...WTF would you use good steel on an oil pan?
 
One of my friends has a 18 2500. Ca said get the update or no registration. He got the update and has driven over 1000 miles. Computer still won't show all registers ready so they won't smog it. DMV didn't want to give him a temp registration except a one day to go get it smogged. Dealer says just keep driving it and eventually it will pass.......
 
Outahand said:
One of my friends has a 18 2500. Ca said get the update or no registration. He got the update and has driven over 1000 miles. Computer still won't show all registers ready so they won't smog it. DMV didn't want to give him a temp registration except a one day to go get it smogged. Dealer says just keep driving it and eventually it will pass.......
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Those have been taking 1500-1700 miles to ready up.
 
Roc Doc said:
I can tell you that when I did the emmissons recall for my 3.0l EcoDiesel, the new flash made it almost un driveable with tons of turbo lag, and it would go into regen every 100 or so miles, and the MPG went down to 21 from 24. Fuck that, so got a GDE tune, MPG to 27 and regen every 500+.
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Same experience when they did the recall in my 16 Ecco Diesel. The pedal lag was terrible, then turbo would kick in and about wreck you. Gas mileage across the board went to shit. Sole it to Carvana not long after. Ruined a good truck.
 
Buffy said:
Same experience when they did the recall in my 16 Ecco Diesel. The pedal lag was terrible, then turbo would kick in and about wreck you. Gas mileage across the board went to shit. Sole it to Carvana not long after. Ruined a good truck.
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I waited to the last possible time to do it, and they replaced most of the intake tract, the EGR system, and I'm sure those two things were mighty carbon'd up by that point, (166k). With the tune it was running fine when I sold it with 220k on the clock.
 
Curbkrawler said:
Actually just googlefu'd it. Says under passive conditions it burns out on its own. Under active, the ECM dumps fuel to burn it out. I just had never seen it do it under "active" conditions before.
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if you beat the shit out of it you might never see a regen
if you idle around all day and never load the engine at all, it'll be continually dumping fuel directly into the exhaust
 
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