DPF Cleaning
Enhance your truck’s performance and fuel economy with professional DPF cleaning services from Consolidated Truck Parts & Service.
Trucks manufactured in 2007 or later have a diesel particulate filter (DPF) as required. This DPF collects any ash and soot in the emissions. It oxidizes the soot (made of unburned lube, oil, and fuel) into ash. The ash is then pushed into the filter’s rear, where it is stored.
Not cleaning this DPF regularly could cost you not only in repairs but thousands of dollars in downtime that you didn’t schedule. Negligence could cost upwards of $3,000 to replace the filter. Good thing Consolidated Truck provides expert DPF cleaning for trucks.
Why DPF Cleaning is Important:
- Improved Performance: A clean DPF allows for better airflow, promoting optimal engine performance and power output. It helps your truck maintain efficiency, ensuring smoother acceleration and reducing the risk of power loss.
- Enhanced Fuel Economy: A clogged DPF can increase fuel consumption due to restricted exhaust flow. Cleaning the DPF can improve fuel efficiency, ultimately reducing operating costs and maximizing your truck’s mileage.
- Emission Compliance: DPFs play a crucial role in reducing harmful emissions from diesel engines. Regular cleaning helps maintain DPF efficiency, ensuring compliance with emission regulations and minimizing environmental impact.
The DPF Cleaning Process
Step 1 – Record Dirty Weight
- Before any cleaning is performed, you need get a starting point on the weight of the dirty DPF. We do this by placing your filter on the soot scale to record the before weight on your maintenance form.
Step 2 – Dirty Flow Inspection
- We determine how clogged your filter is by placing the DPF on the Flow Meter to test the flow rate of air through the DPF.
- Our Flow Meter can also distinguish a bad DPF that may be exothermed, cracked, or damaged, allowing contaminants to flow through the Diesel Particulate Filter using a High Powered Halogen Light to examine the filter.
Step 3 – Dirty Soot Removal
- Your DPF is placed on the suction plate of our vacuum test stand to remove excess soot prior to regeneration. Our internal camera system and lighted cabinet allows us to easily see the loose soot being removed from the filter.
Stage 4 – Thermal Regeneration
- A plugged up filter may need to be baked due to amounts of wet soot and unburned hydrocarbons in order to regenerate the soot to ash.
- With our ovens “smart technology”, it slowly ramps up the temperature at a rate that will not damage the filters substrate and it monitors the DPF during the regeneration process making sure there is no uncontrolled regeneration.
- If the temperature gets too high from the DPF regeneration the oven will “pause” until the DPF temperature drops and has stopped its own regeneration. The oven will then continue its cycle until finished.
Step 5 – Final Ash Removal
- Using compressed air, as to not damage the fragile substrate, the filter is hand blown to remove remaining ash as the camera system allows us to monitor the ash removal verifying the cleanliness of the filter.
Step 6 – Clean Flow Inspection
- The filter is placed on the Flow Inspection bench to test the flow rate of air through the DPF. This records the effectiveness of the cleaning by comparing the differential flow rates from before and after cleaning.
Step 7 – Record Clean Weight
- By taking the final weight of the filter we can prove how clean your filter is by showing the exact weight of contaminants that were removed.
Failure = Replacement
- Some filters cannot be cleaned and must be replaced. This is most often determined during Step 2, but sometimes after an initial cleaning cycle. Common reasons are: DPF core is melted or cracked, excessive soot in DPF caused by engine issues, poor engine maintenance, operator ignores DPF warning indicators, failure to regularly clean DPF at recommended interval.
- Before any cleaning is performed, you need get a starting point on the weight of the dirty DPF. We do this by placing your filter on the soot scale to record the before weight on your maintenance form.
Effective DPF Cleaning Services for Optimal Truck Performance
When it comes to maintaining the performance and efficiency of your truck, Consolidated Truck Parts & Service is your reliable partner. Our DPF cleaning services are designed to optimize your truck’s performance, improve fuel economy, and ensure compliance with emission regulations.
Trust us to keep your DPF clean and your truck running at its best. Contact us for top-quality DPF cleaning solutions.
