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Old 03-31-2007, 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by bamacommander
The truck regen process has a part of its filtering system that gets up and over 2000 degrees.
ER . . . NO! If the exhaust temperature got that hot your turbos would fail. The filter needs temperatures around 1000 degrees to burn the soot. This is an acceptable temperature for the turbo components and is common during moderate/heavy pulling in any Diesel truck.