Diesel motor oil/fuel filter question

ScottG wrote:

just me wrote:

ScottG wrote:

#40Fan wrote:
Those early common rail engines like to eat injectors. Best way to protect them is with a good fuel filter.

Oil filter is a toss as long as you use a good one.

Not any more than any other diesel engine ever made - and less so than many. The only time they "eat" or more accurately, wear, is if pressures are increased. Then the tiny particles of dirt act like a sand blaster on them and finer filtration is desirable.

Do some checking on this. There regular fuel filter lets a lot of contaminates through. Fleetguard designed a newer TWO Stage filter that cost alittle more but filters better down to a 2 MICRON for the common rail engines and helps to reduce the wear factor on the pump and the injectors.
Fleetguard oil filters are designed around your Cummins engine and gives the best protection. The Mopar filters are made by Fleetguard as well but change to the Stratapore which is synthetic filter material and fits 89-12 models. (I am not a rep for these products so don't hammer on me. Just passing along some useful information I have learned over time.)

I'm very familiar with this and I do agree that better filtering is a good idea. Bosch suggest 2 micron filtering but Dodge for the sake of cheapness puts in 7~10 micron. Injectors and pump will last longer with better filtering.
I run a separate 2u filter between the stock filter and the CP3.

Ok Guys, when are my injectors and such gonna fail as you all seam to think stock items are so bad? How much longer is longer? You all make me think mine should have been toast 100k ago. Just to give you an idea my truck is a '04.5 bought new with a 1/04 build date delivered 2/04 and has 152k on it and counting.