On the earlier 11 to 16s, with the LCD gauge display, it briefly displays "CLEANING EXHAUST FILTER" but it's easy to miss... the newer trucks ceased to do that. But the earlier years it did not display on XL gauge display... I like to complete my active regens on the expressway that runs south from the city has long hills to climb... gets the EGTs hot.

I use a Banks Power iDash, actually two of them now. Stand by and I'll post a few pics from phone.

EDIT

Seems the forum is having an issue... on my work computer now and having problems like I did on my phone. I'll post later.


These are the screens I monitor everyday... iDash Left #1 average distance between regens #2 DPF soot load % which normally does not match truck
#3 fuel tank level % #4 the primary fuel pump pressure before the HPFP
#5 primary cooling system temp #6 secondary cooling system temp
#7 EGT #1 sensor after turbo #8 EGT #4 sensor at the exit of the DPF


iDash Right #1 speedometer as mine is off by two mph #2 tachometer
#3 battery voltage #4 OLM (oil life monitor)
#5 Banks Derringer tuner reading of % of power added #6 Derringer in level 6, but now have had it in Level 3 for quite sometime now
#7 Banks Pedal Monster added response % #8 in Level 2 in Track Mode, the highest mode of throttle response... levels are 1 through 10 in each mode; there's stock, City, Sport, and Track.





Green screen on left iDash is my active regen screen I put it when she goes live. #1 Status is ACT/ON #2 soot load percentage which starts to drop, burn off, when hot
#3 EGR#1 sensor temp (exhaust gas coming in from passenger side exhaust manifold)
#4 EGR#2 sensor temp (cooled exhaust gas going to the intake manifold)
#5 EGT#1 sensor temp #6 EGT#2 sensor temp
#7 EGT#3 sensor temp #8 EGT#4 sensor temp



Any other questions., let me know...

 

Other than the Karen thing, the main reason I got a different owner for the 2012 was the smell. On days with no wind and the air was in such a way that it would just hang there, it was pretty bad. Diesel exhaust always smelled good to me, but the ULSD stuff does not have a nice smell. Even coming out of my 2001 B2410, I noticed the difference in smell between what we used to get and the ULSD stuff. My L4060 though has NO smell at all, and doesn't use DEF, just a DPF. The truck has a weird smell when idling, so I try not to let it idle too long when in the garage. It doesn't burn my throat and sinus like the 2012 did, but it still is not a pleasant aroma.

 

I put just under 100K on my 6.4, no issues

On my 2013 I put an estimated 86K miles on that one. All original to include the CP4 had just over 2K engine hours.

 

Those trucks were barely broken in at those mileage.

 

For the shift on the fly deleted trucks with stock transmissions...

 

didnt watch it, but i cant imagine running SOTF tunes. hard pass. lol

 

Wasn't meant for the stock power or tow tune guys... no worries... but running them with a built aftermarket 6R140 or 10R140 would be a different story but they'd still be coal rolling tools though...

 

i still dont get how its a good idea either way. with the way the transmission has to learn our driving habits.

 

Yep, I agree on that for the guys driving the streets.

I've perused many an aftermarket manufacturer of built 6R140s and they're made for a reason... to take the pounding a tuned truck will give them... plus for the guys who build crazy 6.7s with big ole turbo's for pulling or the dragstrip. I just find it amusing that people would upgrade their engine's power level and not upgrade their transmissions. Sure the 6R140 and I'm sure the 10R140 transmissions are stout, but at the factory power level...

It's kind of like all the guys with the half ton gassers who jack up or maybe just a leveling kit, then put on bigger tires with offset wheels that put more strain on those half ton rated wheel bearings by putting the weight out further from the bearings... same concept. They might as well bought a 3/4 ton truck because at least the axles are stronger to put up with offset wheels.

If you're building a truck for pulling or for quarter mile racing, you'll need mods to the engine to make power to beat the next guy and you'll also need a built transmission to take the beating from the built engine. Plus those guys tear down their engines to check on the pistons/combustion chambers amongst other things when they're running crazy power levels hence crazy fuel... But running a race tune on a daily driver on the street is just dumb... but as we all know, there's plenty of people willing to depart with money when they blow up their stock transmissions running that tune... plus it's not good for the engine and that's just money flowing out of the tailpipe, or stacks, in the form of black smoke.

 

It's looking like my MPG improvement is between 0.5 and 1.0 MPG since going on the diet plan. Early this week I pulled a 21' boat on tandem axle trailer, with bed of the truck completely full of coolers and camping gear, and the cab of the truck loaded with the family and saw 14 MPG going and 15 MPG coming home. Pleasantly surprised and very happy with this. The "tow tune" transmission programming is slightly more aggressive than I'd like it to be in tow/haul mode. But maybe with big weight behind the truck it would be nicer.

I recently ran a bottle of Archoil through the tank at 94,250 miles and saw zero change or improvement in anything. Snake oil? Who knows..

But so far so good with this tune. No CELs, truck runs cool even on the hottest days, hopefully it'll stay this way.

 

Diesel fuel additives will NOT show any improvements in either performance or MPG, they are strictly to improve fuel quality and lubricity. I don't know about others who use it, but I use it strictly to improve the lubricity of the crappy ULSD fuel sold. Besides, a 9800 pound 6 tired giant getting 14 MPG, not much can improve on that other than gearing.

 

Well the big advertising points to the Archoil claimed that it cleaned injectors and improved MPG. And there are lots of guys on forums claiming big changes after using it. I'm just saying I didn't see anything.

 

crazy your MPG didnt change much. i guess my dpf was plugged up?

 

Pulling a boat and getting 15 mpg seems pretty good to me. So before the delete you were getting 13 mpg pulling a boat?

 

Guess that would depend on how dirty the injectors were. If using crappy fuel, then got the injectors dirty, and saw a drop in MPG and performance, then using the additive, it is possible for the MPG and performance to improve. I can see that, but for the vast majority who have clean engines, there will be no improvements.