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: What does the MAF do on a Duramax?


McRat
01-01-2004, 08:53 PM
Is it in charge of the fuel, or just additional information for emissions control?

patrick
01-02-2004, 12:00 AM
maf mass air flow. sends a signal to pcm regarding air flow. all sensoes round off to one big end result . what comes out the tail pipe.had a truck this week with 3 codes set for fuel temp. ended up being a k&n air filter plugged and mass air sensor reading was scued. a log story but its just anothe sensor to make emissions ok

McRat
01-02-2004, 12:11 AM
With a gas motor, you can control the amount of fuel injected into the motor by tweaking the MAF.


I doubt it works the same with a diesel, but it would be very interesting if it did.