Thanks, man. Anything preventive you can do with the lifters???
My 02 2500HD Silverado has 130,000ish miles. It has the 6 liter gasser. It’s basically a driveway queen. We have two other cars so it basically goes to the dump or hauls something that won’t fit in the SUV.
Yup.
When you did that, did you remove the DoD stuff? If so any issues from doing that?
I have a 2016 with 189K mikes on the 6.2. I let the engine oil life monitor get between 40 and 30% and I’m getting the oil changed on it. I figure just keeping the oil fresh and clean has got to help.
I had an 05 before I got the 07, never really wanted to sell it, only 19,000 miles and a couple years old, but my friend basically paid me what I paid new and wouldn't take no for an answer. Although the 07 had some improvements, I still miss that very refined interior and better ride, 07 is much more truck like.
My old (1975) F-250 High boy got to almost 500000 on that 360 FE motor before I decided to swap out the motor for a 428 PI.
On my 2017 I put a DOD delete on so it never does the bypass. Hopefully it will prevent any problems but it they fail I will rebuild without that stuff.
Like the way you think. I’m same way. Not into a warning for everything. Had a rental last week back east. Freakin lane assist sucks rear view camera beeps when close parallel parking. One tire went a pound or two below level the filling back up it beeped when it was 5 pounds over etc.
No way 5K gets you a decent paint job.
IDK what they say, oil at 5 k like clockwork, and only WIX filters, anyone running a fram might as well not be running a filter, and if you can find an extra capacity version run it.
The cheapo Fram filters actually have about the highest filtration efficiency of any filter on the market….which is why so many people have problems with them. They go into bypass when they clog up. The WIX filters that I’ve seen test data on might as well be screen doors…but they don’t clog up.
That was me from my late 20s - till mid 40s, buy a new vehicle every 3 years or so.
I actually considered buying a new truck a few months back but thinking about it I was just like “Oh fuck, I don’t want to go through that again” I keep mine ~10 years, they usually become more trouble to maintain than it is to buy a new one at about 300-350K miles. Current truck is a 2020 with 120K on it. Probably 6 more years.
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Me and you both , Sir. I wish I would have never bought this New Bronco, but I had ordered it a year prior and at the time, the transmission went out in my Explorer, so I felt like it was a good move.
Funny you mention that, we have had an explorer as a rental while our Yukon was getting fixed for the second time. I was trying to convince my fiancée on a ST, if she bit I was going to text you to see how you liked yours.
I absolutely loved mine until that 10 speed Transmission shit the bed and the way Ford treated me was laughable. Now I miss the third row seat even more since my Dad moved to San Tan and we cant all fit in anyone's car to go get dinner.
