CM2250, fuel leak mystery, please help!!

[JMBT]

Jimeneztrans84, I have been a O/O for about 18 years, before that I grew up on a farm in middle MO and was around big trucks as long as I can remember. Grandpa, Dad, and Brother all were in trucking as well. I have owned 5 trucks myself. All that being said, I have never seen a motor as unreliable, unstable, and untested as the CM2250. It was based on an unproven emissions technology when they dreamed it up and they still 8 years later haven’t figured it out. Even after demandating, it is not meant to do what we are asking it to do because it was designed to run on EGR gas. So we end up with a middle ground half ass motor, that you better not push too hard or really try to work because of all it’s flawed weak spots. (For example to XPI fuel pump, time bomb disaster, or the low setting liners, or...etc.) I rue the day I sold my 871, also not a good motor in my opinion compared to the motors of old, the N14 and such, to “upgrade” to new technology.

I have driven and been around Cats, Cummins, and Detroits, mostly of the older technology and none have been such a joke as this CM2250.

My brother is currently running a 1999 model Cat 2WS, a 19 year old motor platform, the block literally has 2 million miles on it, and he has none of the reliability issues I have with a 7 year old motor that has 650K. Not to mention his turbos cost $1500 not $4450, injectors are $350 not $1000, and his fuel pumps are $900 not $4600. Oh and to boot, he is putting 720hp to the ground, on a daily basis, and the old cat takes it. If asked to do what his Cat has done for nearly 20 years, my CM2250 would choke, fart, and then die.

You are probably asking yourself why I own a CM2250 if I loath them so much. The one an only reason is unfortunatly all of my freight originates or delivers in the socialist state of California. And for some unforeseen reason the federal government has stood by and allowed California to openly impede interstate commerce, even though it is illegal, by putting restrictions on non-California domiciled trucks traveling on the interstate system, which they have no jurisdiction to do. So until that changes or my customer base changes I am fucked.....!!!

I hope for one of both of those things to transpire at some point in the future.

Sorry for the rant! To answer your question.....no faith in the CM2250 or 2350..... or really anything after the N14.