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In about 2007, customers started approaching Lake because their trucks had problems “brand new off the lot,” recalled Troy Lake’s son TJ, who was in high school at the time.

That coincided with the EPA tightening emissions standards on heavy diesel trucks in 2004, and again in 2007.

Removing or “deleting” emissions control systems wasn’t Troy Lake’s main business at that time. Not even close. He ran a successful shop with six service trucks and jobs in the gold mining industry, Holly Lake told Cowboy State Daily.

“But customers of ours, quite a few of them, would buy new trucks every year and start running into those issues — and they’d ask Dad if he could fix it,” said TJ. “And we found a way.”

1 posted on 11/08/2025 2:01:50 PM PST by CFW
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Good for Trump!


2 posted on 11/08/2025 2:02:02 PM PST by CFW
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Have they pardoned the EPA regulators from the need to continue reporting to work and drawing a salary for their utter stupidity and over-reach. And have they repealed the stupid regulations.


4 posted on 11/08/2025 2:05:09 PM PST by AndyJackson
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[for tweaking and removing emissions systems on ailing engines]


5 posted on 11/08/2025 2:05:19 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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Trump is the Man.


8 posted on 11/08/2025 2:13:25 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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There are diesel exhaust fluid delete kit all over the place. There is a site that explains how to make your own for about $50.

I wonder how this is different than what he did?


9 posted on 11/08/2025 2:15:21 PM PST by bosco24
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Wonderful!!!


10 posted on 11/08/2025 2:24:15 PM PST by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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What a screwed up country we live in.

A productive business owner put in jail for a year for removing (often defective) diesel emission systems on trucks.

Where in most cities, mentally-ill felons with violent histories are released again and again after each violent felony


11 posted on 11/08/2025 2:33:00 PM PST by PGR88
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What's the point of clean emissions it the trucks don't run.
What's the point of energy saving coolers/heaters if they don't make you cool or hot.
What's the point of water saving toilets if you have to flush twice to get the job done.

14 posted on 11/08/2025 2:56:49 PM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty)
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It’s probably a capital offense in California for doing what this guy did in Wyoming. The EPA shouldn’t be able to mandate anything on my diesel tractor.


15 posted on 11/08/2025 3:12:37 PM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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The federal government ruined kerosene space heaters with their BS “mandates”. And made kerosene K-1 obscenely expensive, besides turning it into garbage.


17 posted on 11/08/2025 7:19:11 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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