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Johnny B

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Hello all !

I have a 2020 Cummins that is daily driven. My concern is my commute is only 5 minutes to work with no freeway driving involved .I know these engines love to be worked hard and I’m concerned about excessive soot buildup from my style of driving . Would I be better off losing some parts to reduce soot production? If so does anyone have experience with CA Tuning ? I do change my oil and fuel filters every 5,000 miles and run fuel additives as well. Just trying to keep the engine clean as possible. Am I just being paranoid?
 
Tuning would be great if you don’t have to deal with inspection/emissions. I don’t have experience with the co you mentioned however. Your oil and filter change frequency is excessive, factory recommends 1 year or 15k miles. You can stretch out the time frame longer last warranty if you wish.
 
Johnny B said:
Hello all !

I have a 2020 Cummins that is daily driven. My concern is my commute is only 5 minutes to work with no freeway driving involved .I know these engines love to be worked hard and I’m concerned about excessive soot buildup from my style of driving . Would I be better off losing some parts to reduce soot production? If so does anyone have experience with CA Tuning ? I do change my oil and fuel filters every 5,000 miles and run fuel additives as well. Just trying to keep the engine clean as possible. Am I just being paranoid?
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Are you having DPF issues? Its likely no problem. My daily commute was 7 mins on the highway i never had any DPF issues before I removed my DPF
 
H3LZSN1P3R said:
Are you having DPF issues? Its likely no problem. My daily commute was 7 mins on the highway i never had any DPF issues before I removed my DPF
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No DPF issues. I just didn’t want to cause any issues due to the fact that I wasn’t working the truck hard enough. I appreciate the feedback!
 
flan said:
Tuning would be great if you don’t have to deal with inspection/emissions. I don’t have experience with the co you mentioned however. Your oil and filter change frequency is excessive, factory recommends 1 year or 15k miles. You can stretch out the time frame longer last warranty if you wish.
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Thank you Sir ! I’ll back off on the oil changes
 
Johnny B said:
Thank you Sir ! I’ll back off on the oil changes
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You can back off the fuel filter changes too and align them with your oil changes.

A used filter is actually more effective than a new filter, as long as it’s not restricting flow.
 
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