Vansh Patel0:00 Growing up in the South, the most common vehicle was the three quarter ton pickup truck, which is commonly a diesel engine.0:09 And I kind of just want to talk about the moral implications of deleting your truck.0:14 And to give some background, deleting your truck means to get rid of the particulate fist filter system and the DEF fluid system, which is diesel exhaust fluid.0:26 It's a chemical that is used to kind of counteract the soot that comes out of a diesel engine.0:34 Um it kind of neutralizes this uh the soot that's produced and is generally healthier for the environment and air pollution than a straight diesel engine.0:48 But this also comes along with some negatives.0:52 I mean, as trucks are getting so expensive nowadays, there's diesel trucks that are now over 120,000, and these DEF systems and filters commonly clog up these engines and cause many severe problems to them and severely shortens their lifespans.1:14 So I mean, there's also other implications on power, torque.1:20 Uh deleting your engine has several benefits.1:23 It really opens up the truck and allows it to breathe better.1:27 But I was really just wondering how you draw the line of your moral implications on deleting your truck versus uh what's better for the environment.1:37 I mean, there is some slight benefits to the environment when not deleting your truck, running the DEF systems.1:46 I mean, the soot is neutralized, it's it's healthier for the environment, but at the same time you're potentially causing problems to your 120,000 R truck and limiting its capabilities.2:00 So I just wanted to kind of see what you guys thought of how you would balance um your own financial and just needs uh of the truck versus the overall environmental concern.
Wesley Joyce0:00 Having also grown up in the South, you know, the first time everybody gets a new diesel truck, the first thing that you ask is when are you gonna delete this?0:09 Um and obviously there is a you know, there under the Clean Air Act, there is regulations.0:16 There is a $5,000 fine for non-compliant vehicles, but as you said, I mean, the money saved on $120,000 truck, if you delete it the first day you get it, um, it's gonna be a lot, it's gonna far outweigh the $5,000 potential fine that you would be paying.0:33 Um and you know, I'm not sure, I've never heard of the actual environmental effects.0:39 You know, I don't know the actual differences between the two.0:42 Um, and I also know that my friends and their fathers are gonna continue to delete their diesel engines until um regulations are upped.0:53 But yeah, I it it's um it's it's a weird area because the effects are kind of unknown, and it's though it's um unknown to me at least, I'm sure they're known to others, but uh they were also unknown to my friends.1:06 Everybody just knows deleting a truck is gonna save you money, and it's the first thing you do when you get it.1:11 Um so I you know, if something's ever gonna change, which I doubt it will, just because these old farmers that only ride around in the country and they get pulled over by a guy they went to high school with, and he just lets them on down the road, you know, it doesn't it doesn't seem like anything's gonna change for a long time.1:28 And I hope, you know, that if they do make a change, um they maybe provide some sort of um additional relief to these engines that experience these issues from running um diesel exhaust fluid and trying to upkeep their environmental impact.1:49 So I think that would probably be the only way to get some of these, like I said, old farmers who don't do anything ride around on dirt roads and check the rain gauges and hold trailers to really abide by any of these regulations.2:02 So, you know, it is unknown and it's it's so unknown because nobody really cares, they're just gonna delete it.2:09 Um, at least in in rural areas of the south, like where you and I both grew up.