Fiat and Cummins in court

transamz9 wrote:
My exact point. As a shop man for a very large construction company I see daily what these fuel system go through. The tier 4 engines of todays equipment is not much different than the trucks we drive. The use DEF and everything. When you see the fuel nozzles on the trucks in the field they use to put fuel in the equipment laying in the bed of the truck covered over with dirt, mud ,snow , sand , hay, you name it. If grass seed could grow in diesel fuel we would have to mow our tanks. I've seen them have to stick the nozzle in the tailpipe to thaw the ice out of them to even get them to flow. Do we have fuel system problems? Yes and the fix is usually change the fuel filters. Eventually the fuel tanks have to be pulled and washed out because eventually you won't make it through a week on the fuel filters or the pick-up tube in the tank will get plugged.

I think the point to take from this is, while we would all agree that we don't want dirt and **** in our fuel system, if we inadvertently get a tad bit of dust or dirt that makes it PAST the closed fuel door, then PAST the first flapper, and PAST the second flapper, well, that little small bugger will still have to make it PAST TWO fuel filters, so the odds are probably infinitesimal.

Fueling a truck/tractor in the field, with dust, seeds etc blowing, possibly rain, possibly snow, and opening the cap to fuel with everything as dirty as it is, is an extreme example, and if those diesel's can survive, I suspect ours will withstand what little bit of whatever we have to deal with.

Mike