Originally Posted By: A_Harman
Originally Posted By: earlyre
What you have is a Cummins B Series Engine.
Freightliner also used them, and when your truck was made, was also owned by Daimler-chrysler.
Using that Knowledge, and playing around with the Lubricant- advisor on the Verkol website, it spits out 3 choices:
1:VERKOPLUS 15w40 SHPD (M.BENZ APPROVED)
2:TURBOPLUS 15w40 LD (M.BENZ APPROVED)
3:VERKOL TDI 15w40
With the First one being their primary Reccomendation.
You're logic here is flawed. You should not assume that you can use an MB-spec oil in the Cummins engine because Mercedes owned Freightliner. If a Freightliner truck has a Cummins engine, only Cummins-approved oil should be put in the engine. Mercedes had nothing to do with the engineering of the Cummins engine, and besides, the engine we are discussing here is installed in a Dodge pickup truck.
The Turboplus 10w40 LD oil that the OP is considering has Cummins approvals on it, and would be appropriate for the B5.9 engine in his truck.
So yes, maybe i should have cut the "(M.BENZ APPROVED)" from the listing i copied and pasted from the oil companies website.
Let Me explain my path, so you can see my train of logic..
Yes the engine(Cummins B Series) was installed in a Dodge Pickup. But it was designed/engineered/built by Cummins. The Freightliner I Put into the Verkol Lubricant- advisor was a Sprinter Van, with a Cummins B series Engine(same as they put in the Dodge trucks), since they didn't have a listing for Dodge Trucks.
basically, what i was trying to say, was that these two vehicles use the same engine, and this is what they recommend for that engine.
It would be like if you had a Taurus With the Vulcan3.0, and needed to get a part (say an oil filter). If you don't know which one you need, you use the book in the parts aisle. for some reason the page for the your Taurus is missing, but a few pages over, there's the listing for a Ranger with the same engine. you would use that part # for your car, would you not?
