Swapping an engine with a dpf filter to an older truck

[AnthonyElTrokero]

I was wondering is it legal to swap an engine (cummins) that already came with a filter to an older truck so it could still be running legally 2014? Has anyone done it & if so did everything come out good?

 

[Southern Fried]

Anything can be done with enough money but you'd wind up sinking enough non-recoverable cash into the project to buy a couple of new ones. So the question is why ???

The engine itself is fairly easy, it's the electronics that would be the beach. The older truck would be still registered as it's original year, I believe. So resale would be affected by that.

If you're starting with a totaled new rig for your engine, etc it would be cheaper and more economically sound to buy a glider kit and swap your engine and stuff into that.

 

[Hammer166]

Truck emission standards have to do with the engine model year, not the truck model year. So yes, you can do that. Getting the wiring properly sorted is the issue I've seen people mention elsewhere as being the main drawback.

 

[THBatMan8]

I think you're alright as long as your truck and engine were manufactured before 2010.

 

[Copperhead]

True, emissions are tied to the engine, but that only has a broad connotation in regards to a glider truck. With a new production model, the engine must be within 1 year of chassis manufacture. So while, say, you could have a 2006 non DPF engine legally in a 2007 truck, you could not have a 2000 engine legally in the same truck, unless it was a glider kit truck. And, there is also a stipulation that the EPA standard engine that the original production truck came with must be the minimum standard for any engine swap. When I bought my 2013 FL glider and we dropped a factory rebuilt 2000 series 60 into it, it was an easy compliance thing. The waters get a little murky when trying to do these things to a regular production truck. Best to check with folks whose business is to keep abreast of such things, since the fines for out of compliance can be more than the cost of a new engine.