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Originally Posted by BRICKNICK
Gotta love it Alex.... I just ran across a guy who hauls seafood out of Maine. He has 4 peterbilts 2 2013 and 2 2015. His buddy is a wiz with cars, running, and computer mapping and they figured out how to delete the egr valve, and def system put the step and exhaust back together to look like the scr filter is there but it isn't. And they sent the computers out to Europe to have them flashed to run with out the egr n regen system. So it looks stock but runs like a pre 2007 non emissions truck. He has 725k on one of the 2013 and just over 600k on the other 2013 and almost 300k on both 2015s all have had the systems deleted and he's had no problem. He learned his lessone after he replaced on regent system on one of the 2013 trucks with less then 250k on it. Constant trips to the dealer and constant tow bills. That's what cause him to eliminate that garbage and he loves life.
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Haha, heard a lot of similar stories Nick! There's a guy in southern Ohio who did some 'tweaking' on a few Kenworths that belong to a power only carrier that yanks our trailers when we broker loads.....he also was able to configure the parameters in such a way that fooled the ECU and Aftertreatment Control Module into believing that everything was still hooked up and keeping Obama happy!
Night and day difference in the overall power, and leaps and bounds better when it comes to fuel economy without all that dead weight!
And in other news Navistar showed up late last week to start looking at the 2012 Maxxforce-Powered Prostars we are getting rid of so they could gather data from the ECUs/VIN history to figure out how many times each truck has had its EGR coolers/valve replaced both under warranty and in our shop after the warranty expired......this along with all of the other popular failures, some of which were not entirely Harvester's fault.....eg. air compressors, starters, alternators, etc. Their visit was not voluntary as Navistar is in the midst of a class-action lawsuit involving several fleets such as ours around the country who fell victim to the same nightmare we found ourselves living for a couple years!
Our problem with 70 Prostars seems minimal when compared to the big fleets who purchase 2000+ tractors at the drop of a hat!
-Alex