DPF, Regens, and Fuel Treatments

00:00 all right I want to thank youall for tuning the video today today it may be a little bit longer video but we’re going to go into fuel treatment DPF ID Dash emission systems things like that fuel mileage the reasons why you want to monitor your DPF okay um I’ll explain

00:18 what a DPF is real quick for you so a DPF is basically a resistance in your exhaust right it’s like a it’s like a honeycomb mesh and then what it does is when you’re driving down the highway it it since it’s the resistance it builds heat in that honeycomb and basically

00:34 what it does this is the 30,000 ft view guys what it does is it burns off all the unburned fuel stuff like that okay so that’s why on a diesel a newer diesel truck it doesn’t smell like diesel at the exhaust pipe right because you’ve got this thing that’s getting hot in

00:50 there it’s catching any unburned fuel and it does a pretty good job of it okay now things to think about is when your engine is you know 15600 RP M it’s under a load You’re Building good heat and all those things are perfect it does really great right and that system stays warm

01:09 it it catches it it you know what I mean but what it does is as it catches that stuff it builds up in there okay so every once in a while we have to have what we call a regeneration regeneration is when sometimes the truck actually pumps fuel into the exhaust and it gets it heated up to close to by

01:27 1200° you know 1,000 1200 somewhere in that area gets that Catalyst really hot so it can basically burn off those impurities that are on stuck to the honeycomb and then it it basically Burns that off as Ash and then it blows it out as Ash okay now now that we’ve went through that

01:45 what we’re going to talk about is it does create back pressure on your system okay so your fuel mileage and all those things are going to be a little worse towards your the end of that okay because there’s there’s four things that are monitored on a on a deep F system

02:01 you’ve got a pre- and post temperature and then you’ve got a pre and post pressure okay and how it understands that it’s starting to get plugged up or it comes up with a number is it’s looking at the inlet pressure and the outlet pressure and it can see the difference in between that pressure so

02:18 the more plugged up it is that’s what the ECM is going to give you as far as a percentage of DPF plug okay and so saying all that when your engine’s up and you’re running and you’re towing a trailer down the Highway you know that’s why they say diesels do really well down

02:33 the highway you you get everything warmed up system’s working great you’re making less emissions okay now not less emissions but less soot okay so whenever you’re idling that’s where everybody says oh don’t idle a diesel all those good things right so when you’re sitting

02:47 there idling that percentage is clicking up really fast because you know you may have 3 or 400° of exhaust temp it’s not enough to keep it all the way burned up burned off and so it’s going to sit there and it’s going to sit up okay so it will fill up faster while you’re

03:03 idling okay that brings me to the bank’s ID Dash or any kind of monitor you want to use right I always look at the DPF percentage and then whether it’s in active regen or not in regen okay now I’ll show you on my ey Dash right now that you can see the the pids that I

03:22 monitor so you can see at the top I like my fuel level as a percentage so I can see 48% it matches the gauge and um the other thing is you can see my dpfs at 92% and you can see my regen is off now what happens I’ll I’ll link a video in here in just a sec and show y’all when

03:39 that gets to 100 usually within about you can see it just went to 93 we’re just sitting here idling so what’ll happen is when it gets to 100 usually within about 3 or 4 minutes it’ll go active so as you can see in the video that we’re at 100% this is what an active regen looks like when

03:58 you’re driving down the highway okay when it goes active that’s when it starts kind of injecting the diesel and the fuel it’s going to get that exhaust up and that’s when you notice like your exhaust tip and your exhaust is really hot you hear your de pump clicking

04:12 that’s basically in regen cycle but this is telling me it’s active What I Know by looking at 93% and sitting here idling is on my next drive it’s going to need to do a regen okay and so I probably have the most back pressure on my engine right now because I’m 93% pluged right

04:29 and so when I go drive this truck next time it takes about 7 Mi of Highway 7 to 8 mil running you know 60 70 M hour and it will do a cleanout and that cleanout will drop you know and we’re going to talk about the fuel treatment in just a minute some of those stock cleanouts without the fuel

04:49 treatment I was dropping down to about 10% so it would it would complete the cycle you come up your DPF reg would be about 10% then you start over right and so you know just standard driving City and Highway you know I get 150 220 Mi before regen if I’m out pulling a

05:05 trailer on the highway I may get 400 mi in between regen so everybody’s regen is different now also if I’m going to check my mileage right if I’m running around with a 90% plug and I’m driving in the city all the time and the truck’s not getting hot enough to complete a full

05:21 regen then it’s going to get worse mileage because you have more back pressure on your engine okay so one of the good reasons in monitoring is is knowing okay next run I’m going to go drought and drive it I’m going to get that 7 or8 miles on the highway and a lot of times I’ll even

05:37 downshift from 10th down to 8 I like to get it up to about 17,800 RPM that’s the peak that’s when you get to the fastest clean out you know and once it cleans out temperatures come back down you’ve got a a clean DPF and that’s where the fuel treatment will come in and I I’ll

05:52 tell you that you know this is archol you know everybody and I did a poll on my channel a lot of people run the Hot Shots I’m not affiliated with them you run any of them and it’s not just because let’s say you get you know a mile per gallon okay and a lot of people

06:06 look at it but if you’re running one of these new emission systems these actually boost The Caine levels which gives you a little cleaner burn okay and so you get a little bit longer in between regenerations and then also what I’ve noticed is I’ll get down to a 2% like on a stock without running an

06:24 additive you know it would do a full regen cycle i’ come back and be like 12 or 15% right right since I started running additives I’m getting down to 2 and 3% on my region okay now the other thing we’re going to discuss is just knowing when you need to do a regen so

06:42 is it okay to idle your diesel yeah I think it’s okay to idle your diesel you know I know that if I get to 100% here if I’m at 93 I’m not just going to let this truck sit in idle I’ll turn it off you know if I’m going to be sitting somewhere or I’ll go drive it let it

06:56 complete its cycle and then if we’re you know if we’re down to you know less than right at 100% we’ll let it go ahead and do its thing and it’s fine to idle it if you’re not sitting at 100% the truck needs to do a reg it okay so to I guess to basically to say to

07:13 extend the life of your emission system and your DPF and all that stuff is basically knowing when it needs to do it because if I’m just driving around town and it’s trying to start and let’s say it gets the temperature up and then you know 3 or 4 minutes later I’m sitting at

07:28 a red light temperature drops down it goes from active to off and then it’s waiting for that temperature to get back up to where it can start again you don’t even know that’s going on unless you have a monitor okay and so you could be driving that truck for a week in town

07:43 and it’s trying to do a regen you don’t have a clue it’s trying to complete the cycle okay so your mileage is going to be worse it’s dumping fuel in the exhaust and if you don’t do a full complete like so if you get that thing heated up and you get it ready you know

07:57 and it starts to act you know you’re going to convert that set to Ash and it start try to blow it out and then you shut it down that’s really bad for it you want to let the truck do a full complete cycle okay and let it get it done and then you’re good so monitoring

08:14 it’s important and depending on when you’re testing your fuel mileage you know if you’re going to run a treatment all of those things come into play but if you don’t see what it’s doing and guys it doesn’t matter whether you’re driving a Ford a GM a ram all of these systems and some people will have

08:31 problems with their emission systems and they don’t know why why am I getting a check engine light you know my 23 did it right um and then I put an eye Dash on it started monitoring never had a problem you know it took it it cleared itself check engine light went off but

08:45 basically that’s what’s going to happen if you’re driving around and it’s trying to do a regen and it doesn’t get it done eventually check engine light’s going to come on and still if it doesn’t get it done then you’re going to take it to the dealer and they’re going to have to

08:54 force a regen on it so that it can get cleaned out okay that’s not good for your system anyway I I am an advocate for for buying a monitor I mean the bank’s ey Dash works really good um you know just to kind of see what’s going on with it um and then the other thing is

09:09 is if I pull into my driveway and it’s just completed a cycle you know the exhaust is really hot and all those things I’ll let it cool down for a few minutes and sometimes you’ll notice you’ll put it in park and the truck will actually be at 800 RPM after the cycle

09:23 and it’s actually cooling the exhaust down at 800 RPM in an idle okay so I’ll let it idle for a few minutes then I’ll turn it off let it cool back down okay so anyway I just know a lot of people have asked a lot of questions about DPF they’ve asked about the the the banks ey Dash and then

09:39 they’ve asked about the fuel treatment I have noticed a 1 to2 mile per gallon um but I’ve also noticed I was getting about an average of 150 to 200 miles on my um regen before I ran this same driving now I’m getting almost 350 miles before regen so it is saving the fuel

09:60 and I am getting a little bit longer in between the regen and I’m getting full cleanouts I’m down to 2% so guys I mean whether you want to run Hot Shots you want to run this you know I mean and you may just still want to run standard Diesel and that’s fine um you know and

10:13 I’m not saying the trucks have to have a monitor they don’t for the most part they’re going to take care of it but if you’re driving a diesel and you live in town I definitely would recommend putting something on it to where you can monitor whether it’s going in and out

10:25 right diesels are made to be ran on the highway they’re made to have a load on them and stuff like that so so it’s just the way it is so I hope I’ve answered some of yall questions today because like I said I’ve had a lot of people say what is a regen you know why do you run ID Dash all

10:39 those things and guys I’ll tell you I’ve had the ram I’ve had the Ford the ones that actually have it in the display hey I can see my DPF filter you know it sits there and says zero all the time and then it basically just goes to 100 when it’s doing a regen that doesn’t give you

10:53 a lot of information that doesn’t tell you hey you know when am I going to make my next fuel stop if I’m in the middle of an active Regen I’m going to let it finish you know all those things and so anyway you know and you don’t have to do anything you can just drive them you

11:07 know but if you want the best fuel mileage and you want your emission system to last and all those good things then some of these things are some of the things you should pay attention to you know if you’re going to buy a new truck you’re going to sell it you’re not

11:20 going to have it long term you’re not really worried about it then it may be a different answer for you but again if the video helped you any today please hit the like And subscribe I tried to cover the 30,000 ft view there is a lot more detail into the soot level and

11:34 other stuff like that that you can monitor also but just wanted to kind of Hit the surface level on it today and hope you understand it if you’ve got any questions drop them in the comments below I’ll try to answer them and if the video helped you again please hit that

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