Ode to Bill and his love for diesels...

Glad my new Excursion doesn't smoke like a chimney like those in twaldron's clip.

New term: Dieselbuse.

You know, no matter what something costs, there are always people ready to tear it up. _____________________________________________________________________

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Shouldn't have to with less than 2,000 miles on the clock.

Don't know from whose ass you pulled those numbers, but it looks like I'll get three new exhaust systems under warranty! Luckily MI has no emissions inspections...

You are in need of your annual Alzheimers check, because California has had emissions inspections for nearly forty years. I can remember a

Diesels do belong in passenger cars. If the truckers don't like it all I can say to them is the world doesn't revolve around them. YellowRoadway, JB Hunt and the van lines won't be going broke. A few OOs might and a lot of them ought not to be out there anyway.

Real off road vehicles do not have spark plugs. PERIOD.

If that were true they should be banned from Class 8 trucks FIRST, as you well know.

Emissions testing started forty years ago. It was a visual inspection then. By 1970 the tailpipe sniffers were in use. The first company busted in California for emissions was a bus operator who unhooked the rack delay dashpots from their 8V71 Detroits.

I think this will clear up some of the clouded information.

This should be accurate. Jim Smith

L.W. Hughes III (ßill) wrote:

Emissions testing started forty years ago. It was a visual inspection then. By 1970 the tailpipe sniffers were in use. The first company busted in California for emissions was a bus operator who unhooked the rack delay dashpots from their 8V71 Detroits.

It's well established you could really care less about emissions except as a way to make people spend money with your business or keep them (in your imagination) from driving up diesel fuel prices which you have a God-ordained right to at cheap rates. They should make the truck companies develop alternate fuel trucks at their own expense if they want to do business in California, just like they should have made GM SELL the EV1 cars. California is such a profitable market they really can ram it up the corporation's and they will comply. Corporate profits are at an all time high now and they should be trimmed just a little.

Car manufacturers are having a rough time right now but they've hogged the trough before and will again.