Short commute with a 6.7

[JD3020]

Starting to find myself missing having a truck to DD, which is sad considering i have an F450 and 2 OBS's. My diesel Jeep is nice, gets 23-24mpg's around town, but its too small. So i'm really thinking about getting a CCSB 6.7. But, i'm worried that my short drive to work might cause issues with the *** clogging quick. I drive 6 miles each way to our shop, country roads so 55-60, with 2 stop signs. I do put on some miles when we decide to go out as i'm 20-30 miles from the city, but for the most part i'm doing 5-10 mile trips. Hell our farm is only 8 miles away, and thats all slow driving, pretty much 25-40mph. Obviously delleting it would be the answer, but if i buy something it will be staying stock for a while. Any thoughts?

 

[sootie]

I think you would mostly be fine, your urea consumption may just go up that's all. I don't know what your budget is but i will be selling my eclb F350 XLT 6.7 in a month or so...

 

[Tom@BigTimeKustomz]

Agreed you should be okay.

 

[PDT1081]

You will be ok, just get a monitor (I use the Torque Pro App) so you can see regen status, egts, and Soot %. It's easy to miss the message popping up on the dash.

My current commute is around 9 miles each way. Mileage suffers a few mpgs is all. I've had to sit and wait for a couple regens to cool down as well.

 

[WHY NOT]

I dove mine on short trips for a while, I only lived 3.5 miles to the farm/work so it didn't get miles put on it except for longer trips. But, the truck would go into regen after a 200 mile round trip about 2 blocks from the house, it was like it knew then I had to drive around and let if finish. I put up with it for almost 7K miles before it all fell off and its been that way for the last 60K and has been great even on short trips.

 

[Notneb]

Regens didn't piss me off, it's like others have said: not being able to park the truck cuz it decided to do a regen right as you pulled into the driveway was the final straw for me.

 

[TyCorr]

Yea. That is ***king stupid

 

[TyCorr]

My ****king tractor did a regen today LOL...
No bs. Sitting there talking. It sounded like it was gonna die and the message center said "idle to 1500rpms". Ok...wtf! 2015 jd

 

[Notneb]

Yet one merchant ship produces more emissions a year than all the diesel tractors in the US... Seems legit...

 

[TyCorr]

I havent ever seen the tractor do it. It has 285 hours in it too. It gets run ***kin hard!

 

[patricku47]

My ****king tractor did a regen today LOL...
No bs. Sitting there talking. It sounded like it was gonna die and the message center said "idle to 1500rpms". Ok...wtf! 2015 jd

That's why I bought a new 2014. I didn't want to have to look into tuning and dereeting my tractor.... lol