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Just did a 1164 mile change 95% of which was towing travel trailer, iron down to 13. Thats putting me about 11 FE per 1,000 miles. I'm gonna guess my end of summer change its gonna drop down even more. It seems to be the pattern now. No noise from the engine other than the injectors...

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Just sharing, truck has seen towing most of its life so followed zf's interval for severe use.it at 40k.

one thing i forgot to note, is i run a catch can, during the warm months it catches very little and what it does looks like oil, in winter its grabbing alot of watery looking milk shakish appearance stuff, its what led me to ponder is there just more water content in the block due to...

I keep getting high iron when i change the oil in the spring to get the winter oil out. It makes me wonder if how im using the truck in the winter is creating condensation in the engine and this is just "rust" as the truck doesn't really get warmed up. I live in Minnesota, its cold. In the...

I just wanted to dump do a quick and easy oil change while i was mid trip on the road. I have a valvomax drain plug on it so it was easy to just hook the tube and send the oil into some empty containers witout a mess. The oil i dumped only had 2500 miles on it I wasn't too worried about the...

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3,100 Miles on Valvoline extended protection. 90% of that was towing a travel trailer. Had a weird high iron thing going on in the spring. I am now suspecting that was from letting the truck sit for extended periods of time during the winter (MN) and short tripping it when i did use it never...

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4,000 miles and 2 oil changes later Iron has dropped down to 10. Not sure why the 1st two samples had elevated iron. Perhaps from sitting all winter and never really getting up to operating temps when it was used to burn off any condensation? Either way current oil sample has 2500 miles on the...

Just did a 2,000 miles oil change. Most of this interval was towing a 6klb travel trailer. In the middle of the change a neighbor came over and asked for something, distracted me and i forgot to take sample. Doh! I did cut open the Mopar filter and i'm not finding any metal particles at all...

Yes i saw the same thing. Its concerning to me. What i'm wondering is 75-80% of this engine is for towing a 5500lb trailer. Thats well withing the capacity of this truck, but does constant towing in the summer, and short trips in the cold MN winters just making this wear more? I can't really...

Here is the blackstone report. You can also see the difference between penzoil platinum and ultra side by side. I took the report into the dealer and had a tech come out and listen to the motor. We dont hear any lifter associated ticking. The motor sounds pretty smooth actually. The service...

Well i got my 1k mile oil sample back on fresh PUP 5w-20. Looks the iron content in the first test was not an error. After 938 miles (probably 2/3 of this is towing a 5500lb trailer). iron is up at 32 already. thats about .034/mile, previous test was .025/mile. If i use that math to compare the...

Gotta thank everyone for the comments on my report. I'm approaching 1k on the current oil (PUP 5w-20). I'll pump out some oil thru the dipstick and send it off to blackstone and see how its trending. Once i hit 3k i'll dump it. I'm leaning towards 5w-30 with a ms-6395 spec so i have some basis...