Update on my new Ram 3500

towdriver wrote:

NC Hauler wrote:

towdriver wrote:
The newer truck will still burn upto 5 gallons of fuel per regeneration just like the pre DEF trucks did. What the DEF does is lower the levels of NOx coming out of the tail pipe during a regen.

I've had this 2013 with DEF for 28,000 miles and it will be 2 yrs old 9th of May...and no, the truck WILL NOT burn up to 5 gallons of fuel per regeneration...The new/newer one's may possibly burn a gallon, (that's even doubtful)...but NO WAY will the newer trucks with DEF use 5 gallons of fuel per regen...I've not seen that in my experience...In Fact, having owned an 07.5 Chevy with DPF, a 2010 Ram and a 2012 Ram, both with just DPF, none of those EVER used 5 gallons of fuel for a regeneration.. The "instantaneous MPG dropped terribly when in a regeneration, that's why it was so easy to tell one was in a regen...it was kind of obvious. Some say their truck has never had one, but yes it has...it's just that technology has come so far that one can hardly tell it now, if at all...and if one burned 5 gallons of diesel for ONE regen...it would show up terribly on ones mpg...

Do the research on what you stated....it's not true for the new/newer trucks with DEF..one will not burn 5 gallons of fuel every time they have one.

I said UP TO 5 gallons not that it would burn that every time. That is as per Cummins themselves for who I'm a trained tech

Never saw anywhere that "Cummins" themselves state that with a regen the truck could use "UP" to 5 gallons per regen...that's ludicrous...I don't care who you were trained by...I did the research and have yet to see where a diesel, be it Duramax, Powerstroke or Cummins with DEF would burn "up to 5 gallons" a regen...Sorry not buying it...I've NEVER seen anywhere NEAR that...not even before DEF, when I had DPF only.

might want to take a refresher course on that one section....