[AT] Tractor OEM filters/Eco Diesel

[Dave Rotigel]

TWO words "GOVERNMENT CONTROL"!
	Dave

On Jul 28, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Stephen Offiler wrote:

> Exactly one word:  emissions
> 
> SO
> '
>> On Jul 28, 2015, at 7:06 PM, Mike <meulenms at gmx.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I don't understand why US truck manufactures consistently feel the need 
>> to reinvent the wheel. Ford's 7.3 was arguably one of the best engines 
>> that Navistar produced. The same goes for the  original Cummins diesel 
>> in Dodge trucks. Why not just keep improving those engines. Find the 
>> weak points, and improve them. Constantly coming out with under tested 
>> new engines is a causing them a lot of grief and  unhappy customers.
>> Mike M
>> 
>> 
>> On 7/28/2015 6:41 PM, Rob Wilson wrote:
>>> I toured the Cummins mid range plant a couple weeks ago and they are always dispelling rumors like putting a Cummins in a ford.  It's prettying much just wishful thinking by ford owners hoping for a good diesel. And on a side note they will help you with your spelling by correcting and letting you know there is no "g" in Cummins. Stock torque this year is 900 ft lbs with a pretty good rumor that next year it will be 1000 ft lbs! And U.S. dodge owners thought we had problems with the transmissions now.
>>> Rob
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jul 28, 2015, at 10:57 AM, Thomas Mehrkam <tmehrkam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have been hearing that for a while. Cummings is a good engine but Cummings had some problems a few years ago.  Remember the cracked blocks on the Dodge.  They cracked right across the freeze plugs.
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>>> 
>>>     From: Richard Fink Sr <rfinksr at verizon.net>
>>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2015 9:38 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [AT] Tractor OEM filters/Eco Diesel
>>> 
>>> I heard that in 2017 Ford will be able to put the Cummings Diesel
>>> engines in there trucks. ???????????
>>> R Fink
>>> PA
>>> 
>>>> On 7/28/2015 12:02 AM, Dean VP wrote:
>>>> Dave,
>>>> 
>>>> I have a friend in CA who went through a 2003 Ford 6.0L which was replaced by Ford for a 2004 6.0L
>>>> which was replaced by Ford with a 2005 6.0L and that one he didn't even make it out of the dealer's
>>>> lot before the fan went through the radiator.  He traded it in on a Chevrolet Duramax and hasn't
>>>> looked back.  I own a 2003 7.3 Liter Ford Diesel engine in my truck and it has been trouble free for
>>>> 160,000 miles. The Ford 6.4L wasn't all that much better but the Ford 6.7 L Diesel engine seems to the
>>>> best of the bunch so far other than the 7.3L. Consider yourself lucky if your 6.0 hasn't had major
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