Oil Change
Kinda new to the cross country RVing. We are leaving May 2nd for 3 & 1/2 months on a trip to the west coast and back across Canada. It will be around 9,000 miles total. My question is about getting th...
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time2roll wrote:
See earlier post....
First 30,000 miles did 10 oil/filter changes.
Next 170,000 miles did 17 oil changes vs about 57 if done every 3,000.
As best I can tell there is zero ill effect.
I drive my truck nice. Still has original transmission clutches and brake rotors.
Makes sense to me I did 10,000 mile oil changes on our 2001 Ram 5.9 CTD. Had Blackstone test for extended change. When I sent the sample at 10,000 it was still good enough to go for 12,000 miles. I stopped at 10,000 miles as long enough.
Oil it’s self doesn’t wear out, the additives get depleted, I had enough left to go
12,000 miles if I wanted.
Replaced the tappet cover gasket at about 300k miles and zero sludge anywhere!
