Repair Information
Heavy Truck Engine ECM Programming
Programming Engine ECMs One of the most common requests we receive from clients is to purchase software in order to program Electronic Control Modules (ECMs) on today's commercial trucks. Most often...
Repair Information
Where to Find Cable Connections on Off-Highway Equipment (Part 3)
We get tons of calls from people struggling to find where to hook up, since port locations can vary on every make and model. In this blog series, Diesel Laptops breaks...
Diagnostic Guides
Off-Highway Engine and Equipment Diagnostic Hardware
When it comes to off-highway engine and equipment diagnostics, it is an entirely different world compared to on-highway commercial trucks. This market covers everything from agriculture to construction to stand-alone...
Diagnostic Guides
Heavy Equipment Maintenance Checklist
Prevent heavy equipment downtime and expensive repairs with regular maintenance. Scheduled preventative maintenance (PM) and daily checks with competent operators can cut costs down drastically. These checklists and schedules are...
Industry and Technology
Farmers Right to Repair: A Better Way to Fix Equipment
Off-highway diagnostics are very complicated. The industry isn’t regulated by the government which has caused an ongoing uproar from grassroots campaigns targeting large companies like John Deere and CAT. What...
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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...
Tool Tutorials
Truck SAE Codes Such as J1939, J1708, SPN, FMI, & MID Explained
The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and the American Trucking Association (ATA) Without making this too complicated, the short version is this:Â commercial trucks started to go away from mechanical systems...
Diagnostic Guides
Takeuchi Skid Steer with Kubota Engine OEM Functionality with Diesel Laptops
Takeuchi skid steers typically run Kubota engines. But unless you are a dealer, purchasing the OEM Kubota tool is impossible. That means that for almost any sort of repair Kubota...
Industry and Technology
Parts Management in the 21st Century
On this webinar, our CEO Tyler Robertson is joined by Nate Knorr, one of our senior parts experts and Product Manager for our parts software here at Diesel Laptops. Miss...