Detroit 1-box filter cleaning notification (dash light, error code?)

No point of shooting toothpaste through the whole engine when you can just get a Detroit certified clean filter to just swap out. Detroit page even says the bake method doesn't work hardly anyways. I'm not mad about emissions systems, as long as you don't idle it's no problem. I've got an APU that serves as AC, battery tender (which extends the service life of the batteries drastically), tied into the coolant system for winter block heat. Say what you will about crapcadia, I've been averaging 8.5 mpg lately at 79k lbs gross staying at 60mph. I got 9.3 mpg from Houston to New Jersey with 35k in the tanker. That's retarded. At this rate I'll be able to afford replacing all my teeth when they get rattled out of my head.

 

I was guessing on this engine, but in a motorcycle or car it basically boils down to making the piston rings seat against the cylinder walls as tight as possible, as soon as possible, so that all the wear is done at once, under load, and all evenly. There's only a certain window of time before normal use wears the material down to where it's going to stay, so the idea is to flog the hell out of it right from the factory, under load, to accelerate the wear when everything is brand new, so when they seat, they seat tight and even, and then get that metal shaving soup changed out. Since the rings are the only thing that actually seal the piston, and they are made of the softer stuff, it needs to be done early, and under load, and hard.

I wasn't sure about putting too much stress on it straight from the factory so I gave it a while (25k miles) just putsing along at 60, very gentle. Then changed the oil at 25k, and proceeded to beat the ever loving hell out of it fully loaded at 80 mph from Houston to LA, or up to Seattle for the next 3 months, getting up to speed and grinding the engine brake down to 60 again. basically driving like a teenager. I didn't like how it sounded at first (no rattle), so one morning before it got up to temp (still at 145 °F) I pissed off sergio and accelerated HARD up an entrance ramp, in 3rd gear, full throttle from 1100 to 1350 RPM against the product falling backwards. did that a couple times that morning on it's way from 145°F to 200°F, and since then it sounds loose and angry at those RPMs, like a diesel engine should. rattlerattlerattle. Above 1350 it goes back to spinning like a humming bird. From 50 to 65 takes FOREVER, but once it gets spun up to 70 (1500rpm) it will go from 70 to 85 so quick I'll start hearing sirens that aren't there.

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You know maybe that really is worth it, they push that stuff through the EGR valve and turbo and everything, the whole engine system. I'd need to see before and after pictures of the EGR valve, to see how effective it is at carbon removal. can't beat a good colon cleanse!

 

I wonder what the whole cleaning package costs. They actuate the turbo and valves and everything while it's getting pumped through, sounds pretty legit.