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Need help on purchasing ecodiesel

MRGT

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Jul 16, 2020
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So i am purchasing an ecodiesel and my shop noticed that there is no cat or dpf. He said it looks clean install so we are both guessing previous owner bought a kit. I am trying to determine if it was done well and right. I am guessing that we should also check
DEF
ECU - piggyback or flash???
EGR
Is there a way to tell what brand was purchased?

many advise before I purchase truck.

it’s a 2015 ecodiesel Laramie longhorn.In Canada, 150k kilometres or 90k miles
 

Tremper126

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Feb 15, 2019
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So i am purchasing an ecodiesel and my shop noticed that there is no cat or dpf. He said it looks clean install so we are both guessing previous owner bought a kit. I am trying to determine if it was done well and right. I am guessing that we should also check
DEF
ECU - piggyback or flash???
EGR
Is there a way to tell what brand was purchased?

many advise before I purchase truck.

it’s a 2015 ecodiesel Laramie longhorn.In Canada, 150k kilometres or 90k miles



My guess would be gde or something similar. You could drive it and if it throws up a Regen screen it could be gde. If not it could be either gde or sofakingtuned. I suppose you could contact either green diesel engineering or sofaking and see if they have the trucks vin in either of their files.
 

MRGT

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My major concern is if the work was done well and right. Also if the ECU was reprogrammed and if it wasn’t can I damage anything. I have some pics. I also found out that DEF is disconnected and the O2 is unplugged
 

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Tremper126

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If it wasn’t tuned you would have every light in the dash lit up like a Christmas reee. The delete itself is pretty straight forward
 

MRGT

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Is there any way to determine what was done?
 

BoostN

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Sticker on the ECM maybe? Otherwise not without some expensive equipment to pull the tune and see what's there... even then you'd need the skill/experience to know what you're looking for.
 

Tremper126

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Refer to post 2 on this thread. Truck is tuned contact who manufactures tunes for these engines and see if they can look up the vin.
 

Brady

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Is the EGR intact and blocked off or completely removed?
 

MRGT

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The EGR is capped, electrical connectors, and vacuum line plugged. But no external programmer found.51631CC3-902C-4675-8EC3-3B8705385DF0.jpeg496DD24F-259F-4426-8042-67DE62D6C7D5.jpeg
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MRGT

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The place I am buying it from may take it to a local tuner to help figure this out. So Far I know that GDE did not do it
 

Mac

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I love a good mystery! I just bought my first ecodiesel about a month ago and had a GDE tune done. the device they gave me can look at the program on the ECU. Maybe there is a shop with a similar devise that can look at the program Information on the ECU? Just a thought.... good luck and let us know what you find.
 
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