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I own a small trucking company (6 trucks and 6 refrigerated trailers).I’ve been looking to replace 2 2016 Freightliner’s, only problem, there are NO new trucks or trailers to be had. NONE. I have called no less than 12 dealers from coast to coast and it is the same story everywhere. Nothing on the Lots, productions slots owned by larger carriers are filled until mid 2022. It is so bad, my trailer salesman (Wabash trailer in PA) is leaving after 22 years because there won't be anything available to sell until Q2 or Q3 of 2022. He literally stopped showing up to work because there was nothing to sell or do. To make matters worse, these trucks can shit the bed completely over a $50 emissions sensor, guess what...they are all on back order. I saw a video this morning, farmer’s are having the same problem. John Deere has stopped all shipments to dealers.

I own a small trucking company (6 trucks and 6 refrigerated trailers).I’ve been looking to replace 2 2016 Freightliner’s, only problem, there are NO new trucks or trailers to be had. NONE. I have called no less than 12 dealers from coast to coast and it is the same story everywhere. Nothing on the Lots, productions slots owned by larger carriers are filled until mid 2022. It is so bad, my trailer salesman (Wabash trailer in PA) is leaving after 22 years because there won't be anything available to sell until Q2 or Q3 of 2022. He literally stopped showing up to work because there was nothing to sell or do. To make matters worse, these trucks can shit the bed completely over a $50 emissions sensor, guess what...they are all on back order. I saw a video this morning, farmer’s are having the same problem. John Deere has stopped all shipments to dealers.

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I use 93 with Lucas upper cylinder lubricant. I may as well run leaded high octane gas. Still I just put in the engine, that's a $7,000 hit if it blows.

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The knock sensor just retards the timing in the event of bad gas. Listen for a ping, run good gas, or if you are paranoid about not having a sensor retard the timing a few degrees.

Most cars nowadays don't even have knock sensors.

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I'm running 12.7:1 CR, knock happens no matter what. It's the bad kind of knock aka pre-ignition that worries me. The sensor is failing, and it cuts power to the car, it's annoying to drive, and I don't want to damage my $7k engine. I also don't have a way to set timing, I'm running the factory ECU.

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12.7:1? What motor? Honda? That's a lot of compression out of a factory type gas motor. It can be done but you need to have the chambers polished and a lot of cooling. The knock sensor is probably not bad , it is probably reacting properly! Throw some e85 in there and see if you get your power back.