Sierra Nevada Diesel Performance

Sierra Nevada Diesel Performance Sierra Nevada Diesel Performance in Reno, NV, specializes in diesel repair and general auto services for cars, trucks, and SUVs.

Our skilled technicians handle simple and complex issues, ensuring you stay on the road reliably.

🚨 GET YOUR RIG SORTED BEFORE THE WEATHER TURNS! 🚨Every year it's the same story. Guys wait until the first cold snap, th...
09/02/2026

🚨 GET YOUR RIG SORTED BEFORE THE WEATHER TURNS! 🚨

Every year it's the same story. Guys wait until the first cold snap, the first hunt, the first big haul, and then find out what's wrong with the truck. ❄️

Do it now, while it's warm and the shop can actually plan your job instead of squeezing in a rescue. ⏱

Fall prep on a diesel, in the order that matters 👇

⛽ Range: An S&B fuel tank means you're not planning your whole trip around fuel stops.

🌬 Air: An S&B cold air intake means better filtration and better flow when you're eating dust or pulling cold air.

🔋 Batteries: Diesels are brutal on batteries, and cold weather exposes weak ones instantly.

🧊 Coolant: Condition and protection level, checked, not assumed.

🕯 Glow plugs / grid heater: The stuff you never think about until it's 20° and the truck won't light.

🔩 Fluids and filters: Oil, fuel filters, trans, and diffs before the hard season, not after.

Why upgrade to S&B?

✅ Serious Extra Capacity: Way more fuel on board than stock. Real backcountry range without jerry cans rolling around the bed.

✅ Diesel Specific Design: Purpose built for these trucks, not adapted from something else.

✅ Clean OEM Style Fit: Mounts in the factory location with factory style hardware. No butchered frame.

✅ Heavy Duty Construction: Washboard, rocks, dirt roads, and cold. It handles all of it.

We do the boring, unglamorous fall prep AND the fun upgrades, usually in the same visit. 🔧

Cummins, Powerstroke, Duramax. Drop off & pickup available. Fleet customers, let's talk.

📍 980 E 6th St, Reno, NV 89512
📞 775-384-1966
🌐 sndpreno.com
🕒 Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM · Weekends Closed

Fitment and pricing vary by year, make, and model. Call for a quote specific to your truck.

08/31/2026

🛢️🔧 NEED AN OIL CHANGE? JUST PULL IN!
No appointment? No problem. 💨
Stop by Sierra Nevada Diesel Performance for your next oil change no appointment needed. We’ll help you get serviced and back on the road. 🛻⚙️
✅ No Appointment Needed
✅ Diesel Specialists
✅ Fast & Convenient
Your truck works hard. Take care of it. 🔩💪
⚙️ SIERRA NEVADA DIESEL PERFORMANCE
📍 980 E 6th St, Reno, NV 89512
📞 775-384-1966
🌐 sndpreno.com
🕒 Mon–Fri 8:00 AM–5:30 PM | Weekends Closed

🍂 SUMMER'S ALMOST DONE. YOUR TRUCK'S REAL SEASON IS ABOUT TO START. 🍂You know the drill. Hunting season, hay hauling, fi...
08/31/2026

🍂 SUMMER'S ALMOST DONE. YOUR TRUCK'S REAL SEASON IS ABOUT TO START. 🍂

You know the drill. Hunting season, hay hauling, firewood runs, equipment moves, the first storm over the passes. This is when a diesel truck in Northern Nevada actually earns its keep. ⛰

And it's about to be asked for the thing it can't fake: range.

Because out past Gerlach, out toward the Rubies, out on some two track 90 miles from the nearest pump, your stock tank is the difference between a great trip and a very expensive lesson. 💀

Tired of your stock tank dictating your trips? Ditch the constant fuel stops and take back the open road. 🚛💨

Why upgrade to an S&B Fuel Tank?

✅ Serious Extra Capacity: Massively more fuel on board than stock. Fewer stops, longer legs, real backcountry confidence.

✅ Diesel Specific Design: Engineered for diesel trucks, not a generic aftermarket box strapped underneath.

✅ Clean OEM Style Fit: Designed to mount in the factory location with factory style hardware. No hacked up frame, no hillbilly plumbing.

✅ Heavy Duty Construction: Built to take dirt roads, washboard, rocks, and real use without complaining.

And while it's here, S&B cold air intakes. Better filtration and better airflow for a truck that's about to eat a lot of dust and a lot of cold air. 🌬

Air and range. Two of the cheapest, most useful upgrades on the truck. 🔧

Cummins, Powerstroke, and Duramax. We're your local S&B hookup in Reno. 🏆

📍 980 E 6th St, Reno, NV 89512
📞 775-384-1966
🌐 sndpreno.com
🕒 Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM · Weekends Closed

Fitment and pricing vary by year, make, and model. Call for a quote specific to your truck.

🏜 HEADED OUT TO THE PLAYA? READ THIS FIRST. 🏜Late August Reno means one thing on the freeway: trailers. Everybody's load...
08/28/2026

🏜 HEADED OUT TO THE PLAYA? READ THIS FIRST. 🏜

Late August Reno means one thing on the freeway: trailers. Everybody's loading up and heading north into a whole lot of dust and a whole lot of nowhere. 🚛💨

Out there, "I'll deal with it when I get back" is not a plan.

The desert haul pre trip we'd run on our own trucks 👇

💨 Turbo health: Check for shaft play, listen for a changed whistle, and look for oil in the intake tract. A tired turbo means higher EGTs exactly when you can least afford them. KC Turbos if it's time to replace.

🌬 Air filtration: Playa dust is fine, abrasive, and relentless. A fresh filter is the cheapest engine insurance there is.

🌡 Cooling system: Check coolant condition, cap, fan clutch, and clear the bugs and dust out of the radiator and charge air cooler fins.

🔩 Fluids: Engine oil, trans, transfer case, and diffs. Towing loaded in high heat is the hardest they'll work all year.

⛽ Fuel system: Fresh fuel filters, drain the water separator, and top the tank before you leave pavement.

🛞 Tires, brakes, hitch: Pressures set for the load, brakes and controller working, hitch and safety chains actually inspected.

🧰 Recovery gear: Spare, jack, tools, straps, extra fuel, and way more water than you think you need.

We'll do the truck side. You handle the water. 🔧

Cummins. Powerstroke. Duramax. Diagnostics, fluid service, turbo work, and fuel system upgrades. We'll tell you straight what actually needs doing before you go.

📍 980 E 6th St, Reno, NV 89512
📞 775-384-1966
🌐 sndpreno.com
🕒 Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM · Weekends Closed

Fitment and pricing vary by year, make, and model. Call for a quote specific to your truck.

🚨 EVERY TRAILER IN NORTHERN NEVADA IS HEADED NORTH RIGHT NOW. 🚨Late August in Reno and you can see it from the shop. RVs...
08/26/2026

🚨 EVERY TRAILER IN NORTHERN NEVADA IS HEADED NORTH RIGHT NOW. 🚨

Late August in Reno and you can see it from the shop. RVs, toy haulers, box trailers, water tanks, art rigs. Half the town is loading up and pointing it out toward the playa. 🏜

Here's the thing about that run: it's long, it's hot, it's dusty, and there is a whole lot of nothing between you and help. Your truck does not get to have an opinion out there. 💀

The three things that actually strand people:

🌡 Heat: Sustained load in high ambient temps is the hardest work your truck does all year.

💨 Turbo condition: A tired turbo means lazy spool, higher EGTs, and less margin exactly where you need it.

⛽ Fuel and air delivery: Dusty air and hot fuel for hours.

Why upgrade to KC Turbos?

✅ Powerstroke Specialists: 6.0, 6.4, 6.7, and 7.3. This is what they do, and they do it better than a generic catalog part.

✅ Improved Spool & Response: Boost when you ask for it, not three seconds later halfway up the on ramp.

✅ Better Heat Management: A correctly matched turbo helps hold EGTs down under sustained load.

✅ Built to Be Driven Hard: Made for trucks that tow, work, and get abused, not trailer queens.

Before you go, check your air filter, your coolant, your fluids, and get eyes on that turbo for shaft play and oil in the intake. Twenty minutes here beats a tow bill from the middle of nowhere. 🔧

Cummins, Powerstroke, and Duramax. Drop off & pickup available. Fleet customers, let's talk.

📍 980 E 6th St, Reno, NV 89512
📞 775-384-1966
🌐 sndpreno.com
🕒 Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM · Weekends Closed

Fitment and pricing vary by year, make, and model. Call for a quote specific to your truck.

🔥 HOT TAKE: YOUR TURBO ISN'T A POWER PART. IT'S A SURVIVAL PART. 🔥Everybody talks about turbos like they're about spool ...
08/24/2026

🔥 HOT TAKE: YOUR TURBO ISN'T A POWER PART. IT'S A SURVIVAL PART. 🔥

Everybody talks about turbos like they're about spool and noise. Cool. We like the noise too. 💨

But here's what actually matters when it's 95° out and you're dragging a trailer up a grade with the AC on: a healthy, correctly sized turbo is what keeps exhaust gas temps in check. And EGTs are what decide whether your engine lives a long boring life or an exciting short one. 💀

A tired turbo doesn't announce itself. It creeps:

🔧 Slower spool and lazy throttle response

🔧 Smoke on takeoff that wasn't there last year

🔧 Shaft play, bearing noise, or a whistle that changed pitch

🔧 Oil in the intake tract

🔧 EGTs climbing higher than they used to on the same hill

Why upgrade to KC Turbos?

✅ Powerstroke Specialists: These guys live and breathe Ford diesel turbos. 6.0, 6.4, 6.7, and 7.3. That focus is the whole point.

✅ Improved Spool & Response: Quicker, cleaner boost delivery so the truck actually moves when you ask it to.

✅ Better Heat Management: A properly matched turbo helps keep EGTs where they belong under sustained load.

✅ Built to Be Driven Hard: Quality components and real world engineering for trucks that tow, work, and get used.

Powerstroke owners, this is the brand your buddies keep telling you about, and we're your local installer. 🏆

Not a Ford? Come in anyway. We do Cummins and Duramax turbo work every week too. 🔧

📍 980 E 6th St, Reno, NV 89512
📞 775-384-1966
🌐 sndpreno.com
🕒 Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM · Weekends Closed

Fitment and pricing vary by year, make, and model. Call for a quote specific to your truck.

🔥 HOT TAKE: MOST "TOWING PROBLEMS" ARE ACTUALLY FUEL AND HEAT PROBLEMS. 🔥Everybody checks tire pressure and trailer brak...
08/21/2026

🔥 HOT TAKE: MOST "TOWING PROBLEMS" ARE ACTUALLY FUEL AND HEAT PROBLEMS. 🔥

Everybody checks tire pressure and trailer brakes before a big haul. Good. Keep doing that. 👊

But the stuff that actually strands diesel guys on the side of I-80 usually isn't the trailer. It's the truck, under sustained load, doing something it only does a few weeks a year.

Before you hook up and head over the hill 👇

⛽ Fuel delivery: Factory lift pumps get soft when they're hot and asked for volume. A FASS system delivers steady, air free, filtered fuel exactly when demand peaks.

🧊 Cooling system: Coolant condition, cap, fan clutch, radiator fins packed with bugs and dust. Grades punish weak cooling.

🔩 Fluids: Trans fluid and diff fluid do the hardest work of their life towing. If you can't remember when it was serviced, it's due.

🌡 EGTs: Know what your truck runs loaded and uphill. If you don't have a gauge, that's a conversation worth having.

🛞 Brakes and steering: Descending the grade loaded is harder on the truck than climbing it.

We do pre trip tow inspections, fuel system upgrades, and honest "here's what actually needs doing" diagnostics. No upsell theater. 🔧

Built not bought, but also maintained, because a build that strands you isn't a build. 🖤

Cummins. Powerstroke. Duramax. Fleet rigs welcome.

Stop by 980 E 6th and we'll take a look.

📍 980 E 6th St, Reno, NV 89512
📞 775-384-1966
🌐 sndpreno.com
🕒 Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM · Weekends Closed

Fitment and pricing vary by year, make, and model. Call for a quote specific to your truck.

🚨 IF YOU TOW THE SIERRA, YOUR LIFT PUMP IS THE PART YOU'RE IGNORING. 🚨Everybody upgrades the loud stuff first. Turbo. Tu...
08/19/2026

🚨 IF YOU TOW THE SIERRA, YOUR LIFT PUMP IS THE PART YOU'RE IGNORING. 🚨

Everybody upgrades the loud stuff first. Turbo. Tune. Exhaust. Trans. 🔊

Meanwhile, the little pump quietly feeding the whole operation is still the factory unit, working way outside what it was ever asked to do.

Here's what towing actually asks of it: hours at high load, hot fuel, a half full tank sloshing on a grade, and a high pressure injection pump demanding steady volume the entire time. Aerated or restricted fuel under those conditions is how expensive things die. 💀

Why upgrade to a FASS Fuel System?

✅ Consistent Fuel Volume: Steady high volume delivery under load, uphill, and in the heat.

✅ Air & V***r Separation: Removes air and v***r before it reaches the injection pump. That's the entire design philosophy.

✅ Water & Particulate Filtration: Water separation and filtration built in, protecting injectors from what actually kills them.

✅ Injection Pump Protection: The cheapest insurance you can buy for the most expensive parts on your fuel system.

Donner. Geiger. 395 north and south. Mount Rose with a toy hauler behind you. This is Northern Nevada. Everything here is a grade. ⛰️

We install FASS on Cummins, Powerstroke, and Duramax every week, and we'll tell you straight whether your truck actually needs it. 🔧

Drop off & pickup available. Fleet customers, let's talk.

📍 980 E 6th St, Reno, NV 89512
📞 775-384-1966
🌐 sndpreno.com
🕒 Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM · Weekends Closed

Fitment and pricing vary by year, make, and model. Call for a quote specific to your truck.

08/19/2026

🛢️🔧 NEED AN OIL CHANGE? JUST PULL IN!

No appointment? No problem. 💨

Stop by Sierra Nevada Diesel Performance for your next oil change no appointment needed. We’ll help you get serviced and back on the road. 🛻⚙️

✅ No Appointment Needed
✅ Diesel Specialists
✅ Fast & Convenient

Your truck works hard. Take care of it. 🔩💪

⚙️ SIERRA NEVADA DIESEL PERFORMANCE
📍 980 E 6th St, Reno, NV 89512
📞 775-384-1966
🌐 sndpreno.com
🕒 Mon–Fri 8:00 AM–5:30 PM | Weekends Closed

You're halfway up the grade. Trailer behind you, foot in it, temps climbing and the truck just... goes soft. 😤Every dies...
08/17/2026

You're halfway up the grade. Trailer behind you, foot in it, temps climbing and the truck just... goes soft. 😤

Every diesel guy who tows the Sierra knows that feeling. And a whole lot of the time, it isn't the tune, the turbo or the trans.

It's fuel delivery.

Your factory lift pump was built to feed a stock truck on a flat road on a mild day. It was NOT built for a loaded trailer, 8% grade, 95° heat and a high-pressure pump screaming for volume it isn't getting. Starve that system and you're not just losing power you're beating up the most expensive parts on the truck. 💀

Why upgrade to a FASS Fuel System?

✅ Consistent Fuel Volume: Steady, high-volume supply that doesn't fall on its face when you're loaded and climbing.

✅ Air & V***r Separation: Pulls air and v***r out of the fuel before it ever reaches your injection pump that's the whole point of the design.

✅ Water & Particulate Filtration: Built-in separation and filtration that protects injectors from the stuff that kills them.

✅ Injection Pump Protection: Cleaner, cooler, air-free fuel is the single cheapest insurance policy your fuel system will ever get.

If you tow over Donner, run 395, or haul anything heavy in this state this is the upgrade that pays for itself the first time it saves a pump. 🏆

We install FASS on Cummins, Powerstroke and Duramax rigs right here in Reno. 🔧

📍 980 E 6th St, Reno, NV 89512
📞 775-384-1966
🌐 sndpreno.com
🕒 Mon-Fri 8:00am - 5:30pm Weekends Closed

Fitment and pricing vary by year, make and model. Call for a quote specific to your truck.

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980 East 6th Street
Reno, NV
89512

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 8am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 8am - 5:30pm
Thursday 8am - 5:30pm
Friday 8am - 5:30pm

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+17753841966

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