Promising news on emissions requirements?!?

[phantom309]

The recent EPA announcement has me thinking that there could be some good news in the compact tractor market before long.

TYM would be in a good position to make some easy changes (swap DPF with muffler and remove small amount of extra sensors, etc), and I bet that they would do so if allowed because it would save them some $$$ and remove a potential problem for their customers.

 

[tacticalturnip]

Ah, to dream.

 

[TractorTYMe]

Funny enough TYM's Kukje/Cummins/Onan design engines seem to have some of the least emission problems overall! I still haven't had a regen in 613hours on mine in over 5 years. It is as reliable as a old Toyota.

 

[ericm979]

Funny enough TYM's Kukje/Cummins/Onan design engines seem to have some of the least emission problems overall! I still haven't had a regen in 613hours on mine in over 5 years. It is as reliable as a old Toyota.

Kukje runs the DOC hot enough so the DPF doesn't need to do regens under typical use. On my Branson there's no way to do a regen. Some people had trouble with that. Mostly people in places that get cold who were using the tractor for short periods. Like if you only use it to feed a round bale every few days during the winter. Some folks here had theirs clog up.

Branson added a way to force a regen, along with the exhaust valve to keep heat in the DPF, at the same time they went from a three speed to a four speed range transmission. Doing a regen would handle the relatively few people who had clogging problems.