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Anything to do with fuel lubricity from biodiesel blends to additives used and the MPG associated.

I believe 2001 was the transition year that cam sensor only was used. I'm sure build dates make a difference too. I believe prior to 2001 the engine had both sensors.

Well it is a great excuse to upgrade. I'm not 100% familiar with the Comp Box and how it fuels to say try this or that and see if it slips. I'd still say it's upgrade time. What kind of fuel economy out of that trip? Bio blend percentage?

Cam and crank sensors are looked at by the ECM along with VP44's internal position. If something is too far out of range that the ECM is programmed for you will get a no start.

I am not spreading misinformation I am merely stating the facts. Now if you would like to continue trolling my post of fuel lubricity and stating biodiesel blends are bad due to what reasons you have justified to yourself, please continue and I will continue to ignore you. This thread was started to see what people are doing for fuel lubricity and what the Engine Manufacturers associations have done to help this long known issue. Please consider that we are talking about engines that have no DPF, SCR or EGR systems and our trucks do not have pre and post injection.

If you believe the tone ring is loose look at your sensor to see if it has been swiped if so. Park the truck immediately and pull the engine out of the frame or lift the engine high enough to remove the oil pan and buy the replacement ring and hardware from Cummins. The screws are tiny and require green Loctite if I remember correctly. I have had to do this once before and I had to remove that particular rod cap and push the piston away to install the ring. It's a time consuming job. Check your sensor first, then with the starter out of the way get a long skinny flat head in there and see if you can budge the ring or its segment. If it does not move and you still feel it may be loose go through and replace it and the hardware.

Driving habits and conditions have more to do with fuel economy than the fuel. Sounds like you made some great milage on a slipping clutch.

Good info. I don't think biodiesel blends are remotely bad as long as your truck is in good shape. I'm running an ounce per gallon of 2 stroke so far all my fuel stations are 2% or 5% biodiesel. 5% biodiesel being the most common. Only reason I'm asking about stronger blends is because I may have a potential job that will include alot of travel and some stations only have blends greater than 10%.

Excellent information thank you for that chart.

Oil dilution with fuel is caused by injectors not due to biodiesel. Fuel economy reduction is minor to none in some vehicles. Filter plugging is only an issue in winter not summer and also when filters can not be heated or ani-gel additives have not been added. Now mishandling is from splash mixing which is a practice avoided now due to hazards. The additives and biodiesel are added and mixed in the piping and pumped into the truck. After several PDF and procedural documents I have learned that there is just too much misinformation floating the net.

Has anyone with a second gen VP44 injected trucks ran Biodiesel blends higher than 10% with any issues?

Regulation from federally funded private agencies did not cause the OCI levels to become extended the engine manufacturers associations did using oil analysis. Now back to fuel lubricity.

Let's keep political and environmental out of this particular topic. Fuel lubricity does help with emissions factors but this not the root of this subject.

Look at your PCM ground should be next to or below the airbox. Clean everything off and reinstall. Now if you have lost 2 gears that is the PCM based issue. The PCM connector for the transmission communication is closest to the engine. The PCM is bolted to the firewall behind the airbox. Try pulling the connections and cleaning with electrical cleaner. It sounds like you are in limp mode.

Try ramping up your RPM to near 1200-1500. Normally they do not produce a full voltage until a higher RPM.

Not surprised. Granted the metallurgical specs may have not matched the requirements for the system. Someone could have ordered the pipe with the wrong specs and rather than getting the correct pipe they may have said use it.

The Fleetguard variant has a 30 micron absolute rating and if I remember the bypass portion is either 3 or 5 micron. I will double check the info for the Baldwin but I believe it's absolute micron rating is 20 and the bypass is 5 micron. I've got tech specs on the Baldwin on my laptop I will double check tomorrow and let yall know.

The Fleetguard variant has a 30 micron absolute rating and if I remember the bypass portion is either 3 or 5 micron. I will double check the info for the Baldwin but I believe it's absolute micron rating is 20 and the bypass is 5 micron. I've got tech specs on the Baldwin on my laptop I will double check tomorrow and let yall know.

The Fleetguard variant has a 30 micron absolute rating and if I remember the bypass portion is either 3 or 5 micron. I will double check the info for the Baldwin but I believe it's absolute micron rating is 20 and the bypass is 5 micron. I've got tech specs on the Baldwin on my laptop I will double check tomorrow and let yall know.

The Fleetguard variant has a 30 micron absolute rating and if I remember the bypass portion is either 3 or 5 micron. I will double check the info for the Baldwin but I believe it's absolute micron rating is 20 and the bypass is 5 micron. I've got tech specs on the Baldwin on my laptop I will double check tomorrow and let yall know.

I agree definitely a major problem that needs to be addressed. I whole heartedly agree with you on rather buying from Russia than China. Not just on the cost side but the quality is substantially better.

Looks good. Here in the Houston area the hills are on the interstate haha.

I an but I'm a Mechanical Commissioning Tech. We don't purchase components per say. Last project used a lot of USA pipe, Russian pipe and plenty of valves and components from various countries including the US. The US us setting oil prices were trying to bankrupt the OPEC nations. It's hurting every one in the process. Even rare metals and precious stones are down.

Never plug the tube even for testing it's not done for any reason.

You are correct I have called Baldwin and spoke with them and they told me it's approved by Cummins. My local Cummins facility says the LF9028 is approved and recommend for use on all 5.9L engines. I've ran both filters and the Baldwin BD7317 seems to be the better of the two also its cheaper and easier to source.