6.0 The Perfect Storm
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What makes you think the politicians over there are any diff. than the ones here.
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From: Plano TX and Brentwood TN
It's not just that. Diesel is used in a lot of things, more so then in transportation fuel as the majority of transportation is done be gasoline engines(atleast at our level).
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Otherwise they dress the same and usually by the time you've heard through their answer you can't remember the question you asked ...
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Well, my 2 cents ... Being in Europe, I'm not sure to believe this. Europe has been designing and using diesel or gas high pressure engines, not high pressure oil. Ask mecanics here, they can hardly believe the PSD is oil hp driven. Now only does the 6.7L function the same way than an european design, eg diesel common rail.
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Ok, thanks for the precision. I'm not familiar with the 6.4L, they are quite rare in Europe.
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we have a few states with a 50 cetain rating. Ca being one of them. the rest of the country blows for fuel quality. I wish they would fix that, but something tells me its comming.
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If the EPA wants to continue increasing requirements they definitely need too.
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When the 6.0 was released the HEUI was old technology that was near its end and common rail systems was/is the leading technology.
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And most likely the price of diesel will reflect this change!
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Isn't that a given? Wether they delete or add a process it always costs the consumers more. We are the dupes and our elected officials go right along with it because they are in the payroll loop somewhere in the process.
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I would say that when the 7.3 was released the HEUI was leading technology because it was the first electronically controlled injection system.
When the 6.0 was released the HEUI was old technology that was near its end and common rail systems was/is the leading technology.
When the 6.0 was released the HEUI was old technology that was near its end and common rail systems was/is the leading technology.
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Hey there's no such thing as a free lunch!
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The reason international did this is based on reliability in comercial trucks. Instead of 1 hp fuel pump feeding a rail they designed 8 hp fuel pumps with simple mechanical pumps. It is actually a very good design. The design is also used by cat in a lot of their equipment. The 6.0 pitfall is the fuel quality and lack of lubricity. The 7.3 is less prone to injector failures yet uses a similar setup. I'm on board with cheezit bill is a db! They actually had 6.0 in truck testing in the us as early as 1999. To bad it wasn't over built like the previous engines.... But in reality nothing is over built anymore, it cut into the bottom line profits.