Part 1 of 4: Converting an 88' Pete 379 to meet CARB Compliance through 2023

In on 1, marker to read when I get home

 

Just my advice ....Don't waste your money... carb will change the rules on you ...they make a lot of $$$$$ doing that

 

I heard a rumor someone took a cummins bigcam 3 just like as it was back in the 80's and put a DPF with UREA system on it and it met todays emissions standards. Don't know how much of it is true...

 

My kind of work !! It,ll be a great conversion , can,t wait to see the finished product

 

It can be possible in europe euro5 engine with scr is actually euro1 norm from 1991 wothout it...that is why it gets better performances and fuel economy than euro3

 

Dont waste the money and the heck with Cali. I whish peolpe would stop going along with there bs, soon it will spread to the rest of us.

 

I'll take that B off their hands......

 

Screw California. Y'all can have those lanes.

 

My father in law and I were having a discussion on this the other day at the shop. Talking about automatic slack adjustors. Why...if you AND your drivers keep the slack adjusted out of the brakes do you still have to have a functioning auto slack adjustor? They rarely work right. We never check them out. We set all our brakes by hand so we know they are right.

IE...had a truck stopped in TX and officer was talking to father in law on the phone said we are shutting him down because his brakes are a out of adjustment. Father in law asked if the driver could tighten them. Officer said that is not possible and he has to be certified. Officer said you can't adjust those brakes.... Father in law said yes...you can and yes...he is certified to do it. Officer said I'll have to ask my captain. Captain askes is he certified to do it? Yes he is. Okay then he can do it. Although we still got the ticket...

That being said, this in Arkansas goes back to Bill Clinton when he was our gov. He sent all our DOT to Cali to train and bring back their regs to AR. He did even more when he was POTUS.

My dad worked as a state trooper for 30 something years. I asked him about it this weekend. He was retired when it happened aparantly. He said as long as the brakes were not out of adjustment....or the driver could tighten them...and the brakes would stop the rig it was fine. Although my dad is a common sense kind of guy. He would've given that driver a warning and let him fix it. He said it shouldn't matter if the auto adjustor works as long as they are kept adjusted. Stuff like that some guy in a room somewhere with pen and paper and calculator that has NO working knowledge of a truck is coming up with stuff like this and it gets put into law by a lawmaker that also doesn't have a working knowledge.

If the guys that write the tickets do not have a working knowledge of trucks they can not make proper dicisions on wether to shut a truck down, ticket, or let go. All they go by is that little book with laws. There isn't common sense in it.

All the Cali stuff started in LA....well lets see you built the city in a valley...what do you expect?? Put the stuff in LA...not all over the place. Its like people in new orleans griping about flooding....gee weez....you live below sea level next to the gulf...what do you expect.