EGR Tune up results

[trdodd07]

(07-10-2016 )Waterloo Wrote:  When I did the egr tuneup, not a few weeks later I had to remove the mandate. I went back in to do what I had to do and was amazed at how quickly the soot returned. I normally only run around 70,000 miles in a year, and was thinking I would need to clean this thing out at the VERY LEAST, twice a year. If I was running some hard miles, I think a quarterly cleaning schedule would be called for. Criminal in my book, because few even know of this procedure, or the damage that is being done by not cleaning the soot out of these motors.

Good to know that with it still having the mandate, I better plan on doing this way more often then. I was going to plan on once a year, but am going to do this in more frequent intervals. Trying to work a deal right now so I can remove the mandate soon though. This is a lease truck and they won't allow for any ECM mods which sucks, but at least I have learned how to maintain this engine. Makes me kind of wonder if these shops have even questioned why, or mention to the owners of these trucks, the massive amount of soot that is built up inside the head and other places, and the damage that it causes, when they are taken in for inframes, head gaskets and or replacements, etc. But, when the profit margin is so high on irrelevant repairs and parts, and keeps these trucks coming back in for more work on a constant basis... why inform shop technicians and customers. I agree...criminal practice at its best.