Diesel engines.
This is NOT another thread about gas vs. diesel. This is a new diesel owner with some questions. 1st, just purchased 2013 Ram Crew Cab long bed with 6.7 Cummins diesel engine. My history, I hav...
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Best advice I ever got, and was from a retired Cummins engineer.
Paraphrased...
Read, read and re-read your owners manual. And read the owners manual from a point of view of the OEM is trying to cover themselves not necessarily to help you the owner.
On available replacement parts(maintenance parts, fluids, filters etc.) There's a big difference between the initial testing by the OEM engineers and what the public gets off the shelf. To solve that problem subtract 20% from owners manual spec's on fluid or filter items. Example: if something is due in 10,000 miles, change at 8,000 miles.
Dang, he had some good stories. (He worked with Dodge and Cummins mid 90's when many changes to the 5.9 were coming about couple years later). Truck load of filters got all wet, they shipped in new empty boxes to replace the water soak ones. And those got shipped to dealers. Many different oil company's like to provide oil for just about free, but want to use OEMS's as advertisement. They used whatever as long as it had the label "API". Ran banks of motors for so many hours (sometimes 1,000 and sometimes lots more then mic everything up to test wear. Of course he did mention the only thing worse than my transmission which is a 47RE is the 46RE:B
Paraphrased...
Read, read and re-read your owners manual. And read the owners manual from a point of view of the OEM is trying to cover themselves not necessarily to help you the owner.
On available replacement parts(maintenance parts, fluids, filters etc.) There's a big difference between the initial testing by the OEM engineers and what the public gets off the shelf. To solve that problem subtract 20% from owners manual spec's on fluid or filter items. Example: if something is due in 10,000 miles, change at 8,000 miles.
Dang, he had some good stories. (He worked with Dodge and Cummins mid 90's when many changes to the 5.9 were coming about couple years later). Truck load of filters got all wet, they shipped in new empty boxes to replace the water soak ones. And those got shipped to dealers. Many different oil company's like to provide oil for just about free, but want to use OEMS's as advertisement. They used whatever as long as it had the label "API". Ran banks of motors for so many hours (sometimes 1,000 and sometimes lots more then mic everything up to test wear. Of course he did mention the only thing worse than my transmission which is a 47RE is the 46RE:B
