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This video is a quick guide on how to replace your damper and install a balancer for a smooth running engine. Manufactures recommend the damper be changed at 500,000 miles and a failed damper will cause major damage to your crankshaft and other moving parts. Visit our website for more information.  

  HIGH PERFORMANCE DIESELS When you hear Pittsburgh Power what comes to mind? Is it our service shop? Our ECM tunes? Our engine rebuilds? We recently realized we actually have 8 different businesses all wrapped up in one. We are first and foremost a diesel repair shop, but we’re also an engineering and tuning shop, a manufacturer, a bottling company, a parts distributor, a brick and mortar retailer, a phone retailer, and an online retailer. Many businesses exist that are just one of these things, but we do it all. This year we’ve been in business for 43 years and wanted...

  HIGH PERFORMANCE DIESELS Here at Pittsburgh Power we believe in new ideas and innovations that help to serve the owner-operator which is why we test new products every year. Generally these products are designed to make trucks more reliable, more efficient, and more profitable for the owner-operator. To be honest, many of these new products fail our testing never get to be marketed. But every once in a while we have a product that exceeds everyone’s expectations and we bring it to market. Our original Power Box was created this way, as well as the quiet performance muffler, duel...

  HIGH PERFORMANCE DIESELS There is a saying “Dare to dream and go for it”.  If you would have told me 5 or 6 years ago we will be able to make the 2011 and newer DPF, EGR, and DEF equipped diesel engine trouble free in 2019 I probably wouldn’t have believed you.  However, when you and your crew have the never give up attitude and never accept the “CAN’T” word amazing things can happen. For the past decade the electrical engineering team at Pittsburgh Power have been studying, cleaning, and rebuilding emissions systems and have been very successful in...

High Performance Diesels There’s some big news coming out of Ontario regarding a crack down on emissions tampering and deleted trucks. According to the Ontario Trucking Association, Ontario will become the leader in North America for enforcing heavy truck emission rules. Starting in 2020, the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO) will add an emissions system inspection to the annual commercial vehicle safety inspection. The inspection process will include both physical and electronic emissions tampering tests. In addition, there will be random roadside inspections. Anyone caught with a deleted truck may have their plates immediately removed, license suspended, and required...