If all diesels smelled like this one,

Geo-TH,In

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I would buy one. Not to mention it didn't even sound like a diesel. I can't upload pic showing its a Pendleton truck, Cummins with clean burn at idle.

Sometimes YT won't upload pics. So what is different about this truck? George
 
Nope you don't want to own one, Cummins probably has there act together the best, yet the new emissions systems are just so sensitive and complex that they can let you down over any sender etc and be very costly to repair
 
I bought two new Kubota tractors (no DEF) last year. Both have less than 50 hours at this time.

Never smell anything from the exhaust when operating. Would need to intentionally place nose near exhaust outlet to smell exhaust.

Dean
 
I have a new Kubota that is a year old and the only smell that you get is if the wind is blowing in your face you get a slight sell like fresh paint on a hot surface. When it is regen mode you may get a hot smell but that it
 
I read where it wouldn't be long and All diesel engines well be cleaner, including small hp. Then I might be able to buy one.
 
Oh good, are they now back to burning 10% of your expensive fuel for regens?

At least exhaust fluid is cheap, and it doesn't take a gallon of it ever couple hundred miles to regen.
 
Not on your frugal budget! I work on late model diesel daily, they are expensive to buy and fix
 
My Kubota is the same size as my old tractor was and it uses half the fuel that the old one
did. The way it is geared I run it at a higher RPM which makes it burn cleaner. I know what
you are saying about use the fuel to burn the carbon off as I thought the same thing. I guess
if I am alive 10 years from I will know how well this regen worked out or did not work out
 
Traditional Complainer.
If I didn't post things, you wouldn't have anything to complain about. LOL Have a great day. God bless you.
geo
 
Ok then, my cheap gene might prevent me from getting one. I was impressed with how clean it burned, no black exhaust, no smell. Never saw anything like it.
 
We bought 4 new Peterbilt trucks at work last year, and the salesman told us that pretty much every truck manufacturer uses Cummins' emission controls, that Cummins owns it, and each manufacturer pays them royalties to use it. Not sure how true that is, but he was one of their top mechanics before going into sales, so he actually knows his stuff! LOL
 
We have one International at work that is probably a 2009 or 2010. I've never looked it over real close, as it isn't my truck, but I do know it has a 400 HP Cummins in it, and it was the first truck we got with an emissions control system. It has no DEF, just a DPF and a regeneration cycle. However, it doesn't smell like diesel at all. Not that diesel fumes bother me at all, but this truck has a faint smell of bleach for some reason, it has since new. I kind of like the smell of bleach, so I find its aroma interesting.
 
The rental truck was an International. I thought the tank on the passenger's side said DEF, but I could be mistaken. I was totally impressed how it sounded, how quiet it ran and absolutely no smell. Never dreamed that was even possible for a diesel.
 

When I start my bota it emits black smoke it smells like diesel.
When I pour fuel in it, it smells like diesel.
When I get it on me is smells like diesel.

If it smokes like a diesel and rattles like a diesel, it is a diesel.

For the most part I have gotten use to it and I can tell you it was hard to go there...
 
Newer engines that use DEF have a blue cap on the DEF tank, and most I have ever seen are a plastic tank, not saying for sure that all are though. The new Ford and Chevy diesel pickups are very quiet as well. To help with the emissions, modern diesel engines use a common rail where the fuel pressure last I knew was upwards of 35,000 PSI. Older diesel engines that have an injection pump with a line to each injector separately, give the engine 1 shot of fuel, resulting a a large explosion in the cylinder, causing the classic diesel knock. Now the new engines have all of the high pressure supplied to all of them at the same time through the aforementioned high pressure rail. The computer of the vehicle tells the injector when to open, injecting the fuel into the cylinder. And, last I knew, the tier 4 emission engines were injecting fuel up to 8-10 times per cycle of the engine. Ramping up the amount of delivery as it got closer to TDC, and then ramping back down after that, resulting in many tiny "explosions" in the cylinder, taking the knock out of it and burning the fuel more thoroughly with less "byproduct", or emissions. LOL, there's just a bit of the story , whether you wondered or not
 
My dad used to tell a story about a fellow in the community that said he'd never own an automobile at church one Sunday,the next Sunday he drove his new car to church(LOL)
 
I know a guy who test drove a new ford diesel (with no intention of buying it). He thought it was great that it didn't smell, it was quiet, and it didn't shake and rattle. I told him that was half the reason I bought my 2001 7.3 ford 15 years ago
 
You are right. I can really tell when I start one of my 354 perkins cold, that blue smoke that fills the shed has it's own smell.
 
I get behind some of the newer trucks on the interstate that don't smell like diesel. Can't say for sure what it smells like but I think it smells worse than diesel and it burns my eyes if the windows are down. No thanks, I'll take a diesel that smells like a diesel any day.
 
Hobo,NC,
I worked my way through college repairing commercial air conditioners and furnaces. I hated working on oil furnaces. Like you said. Get diesel fuel on you, you will smell like diesel for days.

Same when I worked on my oil furnace in basement. Basement will smell like diesel for days.

Never bothered me when I was younger, but the smell of the exhaust gives me an instant headache.
geo
 
15 years or so ago on a Saturday I was working on a Massey 444 Diesel tractor. At about 5 in the afternoon I quit working and stopped for a beer on the way home. A guy at the bar said in no uncertain terms "You smell like fuel oil" I immediately shot back "You smell like booze". Everybody that heard that had a good laugh. The guy died a couple of years latter. (from too much booze).
DWF
 
They still cannot take the stink out of the fuel when you fill, Cannot use the gas pumps on same island as the diesel pump because of the stink of the spilled fuel when people fill up.
 

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