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Rant: Old school mechanical injection pumps vs these new electronic ones on the highway last Friday
After helping a buddy swap a failed 2007 ECM-controlled pump on his Freightliner and seeing that old 12-valve P-pump from 1995 fire right up with no computers, I'm starting to wonder if simplicity is worth more than all that emissions garbage, anyone else sticking with mechanical stuff on principle?
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adamk952d ago
Honestly that line about the old 12-valve rolling past while the 2006 sat dead really hits home. @tylerj22 your buddy must have felt like a fool watching that happen. I swapped out a similar ECM-controlled setup last summer and it was a nightmare just getting the thing to talk to the scan tool. Meanwhile my cousin's old mechanical truck fires up every time even with a dying battery. Ngl that kind of reliability is hard to beat when you're stuck on the side of the road. I know emissions are important but sometimes I wonder if all that extra stuff is worth the headache when a simple pump keeps you moving.
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tylerj222d ago
Buddy's 2006 Dodge sat dead on the shoulder while his old 12-valve Ford rolled right past.
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the_richard1d ago
Oh man that is a rough spot to be in! But I gotta gently point out that the old Ford rolling past was probably a 7.3 Powerstroke, not a 12-valve. The 12-valve was a Cummins engine, and Dodge was the one putting those in their trucks back then. Ford used the 7.3 Powerstroke from the mid-90s up until 2003, and that thing was a mechanical workhorse too. So if his buddy's 2006 Dodge was the one dead on the shoulder, that's a 5.9 Cummins with all the electronic controls, and the old Ford passing him might've been pushing 300k miles without a check engine light in sight. Still embarrassing to watch though, for sure.
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