I am a company driver for US Xpress. I drive a 2020 Freightliner Cascadia with a DD15 engine. I could not find anything in the owner's manual for my truck that says how many horsepower the engine is. In the owner's manual for my truck, the owner's manual says that the component information label will say how many horsepower the engine is for my truck. The owner's manual says that the component information label is attached to the outside of the ziplock document bag. When I was first issued this truck, there were two ziplock bags with various documents in them. But either the component information fell off the ziplock bag before I received the truck, or the component information label was not on the ziplock bag when I first received the truck. So how can I find out how many horsepower my engine is?
The Detroit™ DD15® Diesel Engine - Demand Detroit | Freightliner Trucks
According to the Freightliner website at the link above, DD15 engines have between 400-505 horsepower. I believe that different DD15 engines have different amounts of horsepower, with the lowest horsepower DD15 engines having 400 horsepower and the highest horsepower DD15 engines having 505 horsepower.
How can I find out exactly how much horsepower my DD15 engine has?
How can I find out how many horsepower my engine is?
Discussion in 'Freightliner Forum' started by expedite_it, Oct 9, 2020.
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Count the hooves. divide by 4.
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Usxpress probably has 400 or 450 hp.... On a cummins its located on the engine plate of the side of the valve covers . Not sure on a detroit
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it should be located on the middle of the engine block on the drivers side
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D. Tibbitt's post gave me the idea to open the hood and look on the engine to see if there is a sticker saying how many horsepower the engine is. The photograph attached above is a photograph of the sticker I found on top of my DD15 engine.
Notice it says "ADV. HP: 505 @ 1625 RPM"
Does ADV. stand for average?
If the sticker just said "HP: 505", i wouldn't have to confirm that the engine is 505 Horsepower, but the sticker said "ADV. HP: 505 @ 1625 RPM", so I need to confirm. So my DD15 engine must have 505 horsepower; correct? -
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As a company driver, maybe ask the company.
As a company driver, what does it matter?
Do you think you can change it?
Offer to pay the company for a dyno test and see what they say.expedite_it and okiedokie Thank this. -
He can pull the ecm history and get the hp rating from there.
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But how do you pull the ECM history?
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