Turbo Diesel Register

“On the road again
Goin' places that I've never been
Seein' things that I may never see again
I can't wait to get on the road again" - Willie Nelson

Springtime is here, and we’ve got some travel suggestions.

Introducing Ready to Travel, the latest publication from the Turbo Diesel Register. Ready To Travel is a “Best of the Best” compilation of travel adventures by TDR writers over the past 30...

Cleaning up my desk, I found an article from Autoweek stashed away in my file-folder archives.

The title was “10 Diesel Cars That Time Forgot.”

Looking at the April 2021 dateline on the article, it is obvious that I also “forgot.”

The article printed out as 19 pages. I’m going to shorten the text to several paragraphs. See if your memory is better than mine and author Jay Ramey’s. How many of...

Hello to all. Here is an excerpt from a recent LinkedIn post by Jay Stephenson from Atmus Filtration Technologies (Fleetguard):

“We’ve seen a surge in counterfeit Fleetguard filters over the last year, and unfortunately some vehicle and equipment owners are getting burned. This is a PSA for anyone out there considering purchasing their filters through online retailers like Amazon or eBay…buyer beware. You could be getting legitimate product, but there’s no good way to verify until after...

PSST, TDR MEMBERS - LET'S SET A NEW RECORD!

Trivia: Of all of the TDR's front page news articles posted, can you recall the headline with the most views?

I did the research and HERE is the link to “Video – Cummins First Diesel Engine in Operation”. From the archives, 8/22/2018 we get to see the...

Say goodbye to the Hemi:

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This week on the TDR we’re back to the editor’s Best of 2023 article list. Here’s one for the books…Moses Ludel takes us step-by-step through the transmission service and band adjustment on 1998-2007 Dodge Ram Turbo Diesel trucks that came equipped with automatic transmissions.

I just lost my wife of 56 years, Polly Garman Holmes, to pancreatic cancer. I’ve had time this week to reflect on Polly’s life and long list of achievements. As I look back on those decades, I am in awe of the unusual woman I married.

When I first saw Polly during our college years, she was on a Harley Chopper. You might say I married a biker-babe. We hit it off during our college days, and she started a series of “firsts” for females.

She followed me as the first female station manager...

Just last week I gave an overly simplistic review of the 1.675-billion dollar fine that was imposed on Cummins back in December 2023 for emissions violations. The title: “And So the Story Goes.”

As I was writing the story, an email blast from the Hagerty folks (great website and collector car insurance, www.hagerty.com) found its way into my inbox. A captivating article, “7 of the Worst Automotive Myths, According to You” was offered and I took the...

The Best of 2023 in the TDR continues and this week we're presenting the editor's own article that made the list. Yes, Robert Patton offers insights and reviews on a laundry list of Ram truck accessories he has used.

Robert offers us a unique perspective on the parts as he compares and contrasts his having used them in 2010 on his model year 2010 Ram 2500, and again 10 years later on his 2020 truck.

So that bottom-line question, "Would You Do It Again?" gets answered quite...

Will this be the final chapter in the Cummins’ 1.675-Billion-Dollar Vehicle Emissions/Clean Air Act Violations story?

Doubtful.

I’m confident folklore will add to, delete from, and rewrite this summary many times over.

Previously, I had commented to many people my overly simplistic thoughts: “The recall notice is an ECM recalibration. No other hardware change is called for. If the end result is to increase the DEF dosage to reduce NOx emissions, why, oh why, would the Cummins folks not...