New PowerStroke Owner

[johnmyster]

So your SOP is good for cold winter for sure.

I’m getting 1100 mpg of def and it isn’t a daily driver. It’s mostly our RV puller. If I top off today with no trips in the immediate future, it will be over full for quite some time if it only sees 50 mile weekend visits my parents.

OP is in NY. He may see 12F enough to care in the coming months.

 

[JBMoy]

Nice truck! I picked up a 2024 back in April. While probably overkill, i did oil changes at 500, 2000, and at 5000 miles. 5k changes from there. Using a 5w40 synthetic and VP oil filters. We had temps at -8 f a couple of weeks ago and the cold start was smooth. Sat a cup of the 5w40 out that night and the flow was great.

 

[sw99]

Did you check your oil level when you bought it? My 2024 F450 was a quart low from the factory.

 

[longbowhntr]

Loving my 24 6.7 h.o. changed mine at 800 then 1,800 at 3,300 right now going to run it to about 5,000 this time. Phillips 66 guardol xt 5-40 Donaldson filter. Been using platinum blue def don't know if it's better than anything else.

 

[sw99]

Love my HO 450 too! Although, I wish it had more oomph while towing my camper up I-70 sometimes .

 

[ssamaroo01]

Did you check your oil level when you bought it? My 2024 F450 was a quart low from the factory.

I checked and it was full. I also verified that i have the right dipstick

 

[Chris142]

One statement and a question I would drain the first oil by the 2,000 mile mark to flush out breakin particles unless you don't plan on keeping it very long.

The ones at the construction company I worked at always went at least 5 k on the original oil and filter( against my advice too) but the engines all lasted well in to the 200's and 300's before being retired. The only failures was turbos and a broken crank.

 

[Buckwheat]

Maintenance is very important on a Diesel. Fuel additive with lubricity added,,, 5K oil changes because the injectors are oil activated ,,, Air filter upkeep because of the turbo impeller,,,after market coolant filter installed,,,, fuel filter maintained to keep the injectors working clean,,,,

 

[Donald]

If in the rust belt I would get rust treatment sprayed.

I only buy Exxon/Mobil fuel.

Only OEM fuel filters.

i would change oil when OLM say to.

Use top rated fuel additive. Archoil is one

At 75K start with UOA. If the fuel dilution starts to get up there you will need to change the oil when the fuel dilution becomes unacceptable.

At 100K, dump the CP4 and replace with. DCE HPFP.

I have a bypass oil filter because it makes me feel good. Does it help that much?!

 

[4WD]

 

[johnmyster]

Maintenance is very important on a Diesel. Fuel additive with lubricity added,,, 5K oil changes because the injectors are oil activated ,,, Air filter upkeep because of the turbo impeller,,,after market coolant filter installed,,,, fuel filter maintained to keep the injectors working clean,,,,

HUEI injectors? 2007 called...

Air filter because some trucks will suffer more frequent regens if air filter isn't flowing freely.

Fuel filters to keep them optimal, not because they someday begin passing dirt.

Coolant filtration largely unnecessary unless you use the unreasonable 10-15 year FSM intervals. Powerstroke has two coolant systems anyway so you'd need two. Better just to flush every 5 years.

 

[Jimmy_Russells]

Maintenance is very important on a Diesel. Fuel additive with lubricity added,,, 5K oil changes because the injectors are oil activated ,,, Air filter upkeep because of the turbo impeller,,,after market coolant filter installed,,,, fuel filter maintained to keep the injectors working clean,,,,

No. It’s not 2007 anymore.

 

[BrendanC]

i maintain 2 6.7PSD’s. they get Rotella T6 5w-40 normally due to availability and ford spec. they go to OLM which usually works out to 7-8K miles on them. i have both of them add Marvel mystery oil at low dosages every fill up. one is at 220k and the other at 160k on original CP4’s. flushed the cooling systems on both to amsoil coolant.

 

[johnmyster]

From my observations shopping for used 6.7 powerstrokes, the CCV filter is the most overlooked item on the truck and generally correlated with trucks that leaked oil from one or more places of high inconvenience to fix.

Well, and coolant flushes on both systems. And on any PSD with factory CCV filter and two different colors of coolant in the tanks, I just assumed trans/tcase/diffs had never been touched either.

 

[userfriendly]

That is a great suggestion. I wonder what the average freezing temp of cat pee is?

I tried DEF fluid on my last company drug test. I passed, but the report said my horse is pregnant.

 

[Donald]

From my observations shopping for used 6.7 powerstrokes, the CCV filter is the most overlooked item on the truck and generally correlated with trucks that leaked oil from one or more places of high inconvenience to fix.

Well, and coolant flushes on both systems. And on any PSD with factory CCV filter and two different colors of coolant in the tanks, I just assumed trans/tcase/diffs had never been touched either.

Coolant less of an issue with Ford Yellow than it was with Ford orange.