Cummins X15 performance fuel problems, filters plug up very fastt

First question that comes to mind is, where does he fuel? Second, who did he piss off to drop a handful of dirt into his tank?

With the DD15’s (I know, Detroit’s) we have in our fleet. They all have engine coolant running through the fuel filters, we run the filters to 24000, and in 8years we’ve had the around, we’ve only had fuel filters plug prematurely twice. Both the same truck, both the same fuel station, with above ground tanks, and just after they received a delivery.

We don’t fuel there anymore!!

 

Blame Cummins, Blame Pete, heck blame the president.

The fuel is your problem, not the truck. It is either dirty or is gelled and has water/slime suspended that is prematurely plugging filters. It is the only explanation. In the north the cold weather brings out all the slimy goodies that the fuel contains. It can take many filters to rid one bad batch.

 

I have brand new cummins/paccars with no fuel heaters running up north at -50. Like @Goodysnap says it aint the trucks fault.

 

There’s a x15 thread around here somewhere. Read a couple posts about the same filter problem, I don’t know if they found a cure haven’t read up on it lately.

 

If they are plugging middle of summer, tank heaters wont help. Why dont you send a filter out to a lab and see what it is catching?

 

Does he have the Davco unit on there...?

I’ve heard that the engine does better with that unit......