What You Need to Know Before Deleting or Tuning Your Heavy Equipment's Emissions System

We constantly receive calls from customers asking about deleting their emissions systems on machines ranging from tractors to heavy equipment. Some of these people want to delete before they send the piece of equipment out of the country, but the large majority are just tired of spending thousands of dollars...

Truck SAE Codes Such as J1939, J1708, SPN, FMI, & MID Explained

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The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and the American Trucking Association (ATA) Without making this too complicated, the short version is this: commercial trucks started to go away from mechanical systems to electronic systems in the early 1990s. When the first generations of these trucks started to come on the market,...

Where to Find Cable Connections on Off-Highway Equipment (Part 2)

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Finding where to connect to run diagnostics on construction and farming equipment is frustrating. It can seem like no two machines have the hook up in the same place. So we have broken down some of the most common equipment that we work on with our Diesel Laptops Diagnostic Kits....

Diesel Laptops HDAW20: How Advanced Technologies are Reshaping Today’s Service Bays

It was an absolute pleasure and honor to present at HDAW20 regarding “How Advanced Technologies are Reshaping Today’s Service Bays.” We have made the slides from this presentation available, and also summarized the references used in the presentation. Diesel Laptops is available to speak at your next convention, meeting, or...

Where to Find Cable Connections on Off-Highway Equipment

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By using the correct cable, a diagnostic kit or scan tool can be attached to your construction or agriculture equipment to read and analyze fault codes. Using diagnostic kits like TEXA or Cojali you can read fault codes, get repair information, and clear fault codes to get your machine back...

Tool Time Webinar Wrap Up

Shopping for a new diagnostic tool can be a daunting task with all the options out on the market these days. In this blog post, we’ll be giving you the pros and cons of all your choices from Bluetooth readers up to dealer level kits. We did a webinar all...