dodge man
Super Star Member
I see a lot of complaining on this forum about the diesel emissions requirements on new trucks and machinery. I have mixed emotions about this subject. I am by no means a tree hugger, but I read an article in Diesel Power magazine about this subject a few months ago. He said have you ever gone outside in the morning, taken a deep breath and said "the air is too clean today". This is coming from a magazine that has a lot of ads for deletes on diesel trucks. He put forth the idea maybe we shouldn't be doing all these deletes. Anybody that pays attention to this stuff also knows the government is watching this. I think Edge products got hit with a suit and settled out of court for $500,000.
I think there are a lot of parallels between the emissions on gas engines and diesel engines. If you remember the late 70's and early 80's, these were pretty dim years for cars, and performance cars even more so. Things have progressed, we have fuel injection, computers, cats, egr etc. that have really cleaned up gas engines. I never read on this forum about people complaining about all the stuff on there gas trucks. Cars get good mileage, ride and handle well, and perform better than ever.
In my opinion, diesel owners just need to ride this out, auto makers, tractor makers and heavy equipment makers will figure this stuff out, make things better and cleaner.
What say all you?
I think there are a lot of parallels between the emissions on gas engines and diesel engines. If you remember the late 70's and early 80's, these were pretty dim years for cars, and performance cars even more so. Things have progressed, we have fuel injection, computers, cats, egr etc. that have really cleaned up gas engines. I never read on this forum about people complaining about all the stuff on there gas trucks. Cars get good mileage, ride and handle well, and perform better than ever.
In my opinion, diesel owners just need to ride this out, auto makers, tractor makers and heavy equipment makers will figure this stuff out, make things better and cleaner.
What say all you?