"EASY" Cummins 6.7 2013+ oil change!
After reading about all the horror stories about how hard and messy changing the oil on a 13 and newer 6.7 Cummins was I used all the info I gleaned from everyone and changed oil today for the first t...
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The Mad Norsky wrote:
Fish said "BTW... I do respect the fact you prefer to do this yourself. I couldn't imagine having some kid perform this task at the lube shop. Way too many opportunities for a mistake to be made with unintended consequences."
Well, after reading Cummins 12V's original post here, went out to my truck to look for that 10mm bolt on the turbo hoses, just to familiarize myself.
Looking around the motor compartment, suddenly I spotted something out of the corner of my eye;
THIS:
ITS NOT MINE!
Facing rearward from the front of the truck, it was laying stuck between the fan shroud and the air filter box. God only knows how long it has been in there. Wedged in good, so at least it was not getting into the fan or belt systems.
But I don't think it was the correct size (21mm metric) to be of any use in the one vehicle service my local dealer has done, an oil change, so it could have been in there from the factory even.
But its is idiot stuff like this that makes me want to do my own service work, and stay away from the clowns that do the work at many places.
Gosh this made me angry to find this. And thankful, as I said, that it was wedged in so good that it didn't rattle into the fan or belts and cause serious damage while I was driving around.
I've looked under that hood dozens of times, and this was the very first time I had even seen this.
As I said, it was not mine, but it is now.
Years ago, my brother found a wrench under the hood of his new S10. I think it was stuck down by the skid plate. It had initialis carved into it and was from the factory as it hadn't been anywhere for service yet.
