2016 CTD 6.7 oil change questions
Getting ready to do the first oil change on the new CTD. I've watched all the youtube videos regarding the PITA oil filter removal and spillage avoidance. Just wanted to get some feedback on how oth...
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Cummins12V98 wrote:
"Filters do not need pre filling either. Another myth."
I guess Cummins recommending the filter be pre filled is "Another Myth" ?
?? IDK.
I'm a guy, so I grew up not reading directions, lol. Don't know what Cummins says about it. Heck I don't even know what the payload of my truck is, but in the probably thousand or more oil filters I've changed on everything from large construction equipment to lawn mowers I haven't prefilled the filters. (Changed a lot of oil in high school and college maintaining a fleet of equipment)
Pretty sure that would have come back to bite me by now if it was an issue.
I agree that it, in no way can hurt to pre fill a filter with clean oil and on some microscopic level "may" extend engine life, but I do not believe for a second that it is a great contributor or a contributor at all to premature failure.
Heck, I just lost the oil in my snowbike, (yz450 conversion), 3rd gear pinned up hill in 2' of heavy powder. Smoked the piston/cylinder. I'll admit I got lucky that that's all the damage, bottom end is tight and cams/journals mic out to within spec, valave guides don't leak. This is an extreme example, but the piston cooling and cylinder lube squirters ran out long enough to basically cold seize the piston. If running without oil long enough to do that damage didn't trash the crank bearings and valvetrain, 2seconds at idle ona cold engine while the filter fills won't.
Again I'd ask about lube systems with horizontal or upside down mounted filters that drain back when shut down. Why don't those blow up?
