Antonm
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How did this ridiculous rumor get started? Read GMs own service description of DFM operation that was posted earlier in this thread. DFM is NOT active during deceleration fuel-cutoff mode aka what you experience when coasting down with quiet exhaust. The engine re-fires at 14mph slowing down if you continue to coast.
DFM IS NOT ACTIVE DURING DFCO. Not sure what else to say. The solenoids aren’t energized and the lifters aren’t being de-activated. DFCO is normal operation whether the engine has DFM or not. My company 2500 with the L8T does the exact same thing. If you want to remove this behavior you need a full tune.
Put the truck in L9 (which actually disables DFM) and that doesn't happen. Cutting off fueling while coasting is not new (even my mechanical P-Pump Cummins engines from the 90's do that). Part of the current DFCO is to allow the lifters (all of them) to collapse which is thing we all just want disabled and are not getting.
So sure, one could argue the semantics that DFCO its separate from and not directly part DFM, buts its a stretch as it does request DFM to activate and collapse the lifters (which is the main thing we all wanted to stop from ever happening). If DFM were "disabled" then when DFCO requested it, it wouldn't do it, so DFM is not disabled.
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