Manual regen on 2017 Ford F350
I ordered a 2017 F350 King Ranch with the Powerstroke a couple of weeks ago. While building my order with the dealer I noticed if you ordered an XL or XLT model you could order a manual regen switch. ...
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Redwoodcamper wrote:
Or you could buy a ram and not worry about it. Just my opinion after pulling the heads/cabs/ egr coolers on 10+ Ford's.
Obviously you're leaving out the ~67k mile required EGR system cleaning/maintenance process that cummins requires on their non DEF engines. And yes the DEF equipped cummins do soot up as well, but not as bad as the pre DEF trucks.
In addition some cummins produce so much carbon they have a special oil that you have to run in them to clean the soot/carbon behind the rings to prevent ring jacking.
