Recent content by PNWDiesel

I haven’t seen transmission failures from it, however I have seen very poorly running trucks and bricked ECUs from people who shouldn’t be using calterm, let alone ‘tuning’ vehicles. Until they are able to get around the bootloader protections like on the earlier ECUs there aren’t many options...

The 22+ ECUs have not been cracked, someone above hinted at how it’s done with calterm. They can only alter the non HO ECUs to disable the emissions (0hp, or very limited added power) regardless of what they claim. Even then, it’s hit or miss with the ‘tuning’ depending on who’s doing it.

lol you’re obviously very passionate about OEM intervals and OCIs. To each their own.

I said he was bad at oil changes (meaning he has gone well over what is listed in his manual for extreme duty / regular oil changes. He does not do any OCIs and has gone as far as 20k miles on an oil change towing heavy / etc… multiple times). His DPF system on the other hand has been crap the...

I didn’t say it was bad, I mentioned it because he does what a lot of what people here say you shouldn’t do with his truck to avoid the lifter issues. Point is, I don’t think it’s anywhere near as bad as it’s stated when it comes to lifter failures as it’s talked about online. Doesn’t mean it...

Bought my 2024 3500 HO two weeks ago knowing the issues, and knowing of the flat tappet conversion mentioned on this forum. I’ve had buddies with hard miles on their 2020/2021 3500s with absolutely zero issues, one of them is really bad on oil change interval (refuses to do any oil changes...