i was driving a 2010 cascadia for the past week while my truck was getting fixed and that damn regen light would come on sometimes when i stopped. once i got back to speed it would go off again. all thats good for is to eventually clog all the way up so you have to take it to the dealer so they can take it out and bake the shit out of it.

I can't find the quote.. Like FMX said, it does cut down dramatically on regens. when my 08 was stock it would regen once for every tank of fuel used. This new truck has regenerated 2 times since i've owned it. i have roughly 4k miles on it now.
It also helps out a lot on the EGR side of the motor. When these new diesels are idleing, they run very very lean. Thus the EGR is there to help richen up the mixture. What the DEF does is react with the NOx and produces (dont hold me to this) but H20 and one other thing that i cant think of off the top of my head. So when it is cycled back through the motor it produces much less particulate matter. The addition of the SCR and DEF fluid on these new trucks (i can only speak for the 6.7L cummins and the c13 cat) is a very very good thing. It increases the productivity as well as the longevity of the motor and emissions systems without any bad side effects other than another tank to keep an eye on. All of the new truck's ive seen have tank heaters and fuel heaters for the DPF and Diesel on them to combat the DEF "freezing" (crystallizing)

If you're hell bent on staying away from the new emissions, just get a Glider, i know you know about them if you drive trucks.



On our big trucks the best way to combat this is simple. Keep the idle time down or cut it out completely (minus building air and cold starts) Run the aftertreatment if your motor calls for it, and keep the heads cleaned out. Our's get sent out every 50k to be cleaned and or replaced. If you dont, the valves for the emissions and "auto regen" will clog and you will be forced to do a "manual regen" which requires you pull over and stop. the motor ramps up rpm and bakes the fuck out of everything, and eventually killing itself.

This post was edited by jimmyhoud on Mar 16 2014 06:56pm

yeah we had another 2010 pete that was identical to the one im getting and the guy jumped a guardrail and flipped it over a small hill. they took it and was gonna do a glider with it. the thing that hurts our trucks the most is being cut back. we have a guy in monaca pa that owns his own truck but its tagged through our company and he has a new cascadia thats wide open and hes never had the first problem with it. ours is constantly going back to freightliner and cummins. one of them had like 20k miles on it and through a rod through the side of the block while the guy was pulling a hill loaded. thats why i want that pete because its not cut back. my columbia isnt bad it runs 68mph



for the most part we run most of the time. most of the sitting is while unloading but you run the pto blower with the motor at about 1k-1.2k rpms.

This post was edited by JDH on Mar 16 2014 07:02pm

Our pete's are all gear bound couple trucks do 65-70)
The pete i run does 52 But i get paid by the hour and i havent had to move my equipment in a few weeks so i dont much care.

This post was edited by jimmyhoud on Mar 16 2014 07:04pm