Earliest Year Engine An ELD Will Work For

I have a 97 International with a n-14. Head mechanic at our shop says if it has a plug to hook a diagnostic reader to it you can hook up a ELD.

 

I know a guy that runs an ELD with a mechanical Cat.

 

I don't know the name of the company but there is one that makes a J1939 interface for mechanical engines. They've been around for 15 years now and saw a few mid-90's trucks with ELDs installed with this system installed to make it all work.

By the way, pre-emissions are 2006 or newer.

 

Yes. One on the ECM itself and one in the cabin

I have yet to put the truck on the road yet so do not have it hooked to a ELD yet.

 

Everytime the EPA imposed stricter emissions, the public would call the engines before "pre-emission. So I have seen 2005-2007 referred to as "pre-emission" even though they had egr.

And in case anybody wondered, when they imposed egr, everybody panicked, so the engine manufacturers ramped up production in the last year. The truck manufacturers could use excess inventory until new engines were used up. The 2002 model engines lasted through 2004 so it looks like 2004 trucks are pre-egr and 2005 are egr.