Recent content by BigFoot302

For sure, worth the investment. Averaging 20-21 MPG leveled on 37s with ~800 lbs constant load (truck vault/glide and camper top). Can’t complain all around for a truck that weighs 9800 lbs.

Another great checkup! Really liking this Valvoline premium blue 5w-40.

Reduction of weight that allowed me to severely reduce the amount of extra fuel dumped into the cylinders.

Hey guys. Had a few oil changes since this time. Something was done that completely solved my fuel dilution issue and I can’t recommend that enough after seeing it in action. Here’s the data from my last two, the wear is trending in a great direction.

I can’t say for certain but I’ve been doing several long road trips this interval. Like 5+ hours driving in a row and each time I could tell when it was passively regenerating by the fuel mileage and boost gauge. I run either archoil or hotshots EDT every fill up.

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Got my used oil analysis back and everything seems to look fine except for fuel dilution. I suspect it is because of regen and all the extra fuel dumped when that occurs. Truck is at 33k miles and this oil change was 5500 miles.

Thank you for this. I thought it was weird at first, never noticed it before and just wanted to make sure! Will definitely not worry about it anymore.

The black dot on the middle on the top of the bypass. Some of the filters have it and some don’t. Sorry it’s hard to get a good picture of it.

Howdy, I have a Donaldson P502503 and I have had several of them come with this inside of them. It looks to be like a black sticky substance on the bottom of the filter, I usually return them and make them give me new ones and I pick the ones that don’t have this. Is this normal? Would yall put...