Ford's answers to the NHTSA 6.7 Investigation
There was a request for a link to Ford's answer's to the NHTSA investigation posted on a previous thread, since closed. Here is the link: Ford's NHTSA Answers to the 6.7 investigation This PDF i...
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I have been reading about this issue here on on several other forums. Now I do not own a truck that is affected (I drive a 2005 Chevy LLY) but I have worked on vessels in the Merchant Marine as Chief Engineer and my wife says if you cut me I will bleed diesel.
When I was sailing on large sea going Tug Barge Units we had EMD Medium Speed Diesels the red lined at 900 rpm. When they switched to Low Sulfur Diesel we had a lot of injector problems.
Now to the reason for posting. My company installed Alfa Laval Centrifuges after having to replace many sets of injectors, (16 per engine). I was shocked at the amount of "stuff" that came out of this Clean Diesel. After running around 10,000 gallons through it there would be about a 1/2 of crud caked to the sides of the centrifuge bowl.
I know that there are Engine Oil Spinners, which are basically small centrifuges and I was wondering if one could be made to fit and work to pre-filter the fuel as it exits the tank. This would remove any water plus it would spin out most if not all of the impurities.
My brother had his 2008 6.4 250 in for some work at the local dealership. While waiting I was able to talk to the Diesel Fleet Service Manager. It was a interesting conversation. He did say that he had not had any problems so far with the 6.7 but he said that he was seeing a increase in the 6.4 trucks coming in with fuel system problems so as other have said time will tell as the new trucks rack up the miles.
By the way my brother just traded in the Ford on a 2012 Chevy 3500 CCLB 4x4 Dually. He is the type to really keep up on all PM so, hopefully he will be lucky.
When I was sailing on large sea going Tug Barge Units we had EMD Medium Speed Diesels the red lined at 900 rpm. When they switched to Low Sulfur Diesel we had a lot of injector problems.
Now to the reason for posting. My company installed Alfa Laval Centrifuges after having to replace many sets of injectors, (16 per engine). I was shocked at the amount of "stuff" that came out of this Clean Diesel. After running around 10,000 gallons through it there would be about a 1/2 of crud caked to the sides of the centrifuge bowl.
I know that there are Engine Oil Spinners, which are basically small centrifuges and I was wondering if one could be made to fit and work to pre-filter the fuel as it exits the tank. This would remove any water plus it would spin out most if not all of the impurities.
My brother had his 2008 6.4 250 in for some work at the local dealership. While waiting I was able to talk to the Diesel Fleet Service Manager. It was a interesting conversation. He did say that he had not had any problems so far with the 6.7 but he said that he was seeing a increase in the 6.4 trucks coming in with fuel system problems so as other have said time will tell as the new trucks rack up the miles.
By the way my brother just traded in the Ford on a 2012 Chevy 3500 CCLB 4x4 Dually. He is the type to really keep up on all PM so, hopefully he will be lucky.
