Oil life?
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Oil life?
At work we have an 04 f350 bucket truck with the 6.0 pad. It hardly ever gets driven. I had the oil changed 7/11 with inspection. 7/12 I had ot inspected and we had only put about 500 miles on it. Well here it is 1/13 and Im driving it again and noticed the inspection is due and the truck has less then 1000 miles on it since the oil change in 7/11.
How long should the oil last at this rate? I mean I know I won't get 5k out pf the oil over a 10 year period. But for all I know it might be 6 months before it gets driven again so its almost not worth it to change the oil in it right now with no foreseeable work in its near future.
How long should the oil last at this rate? I mean I know I won't get 5k out pf the oil over a 10 year period. But for all I know it might be 6 months before it gets driven again so its almost not worth it to change the oil in it right now with no foreseeable work in its near future.
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At work we have an 04 f350 bucket truck with the 6.0 pad. It hardly ever gets driven. I had the oil changed 7/11 with inspection. 7/12 I had ot inspected and we had only put about 500 miles on it. Well here it is 1/13 and Im driving it again and noticed the inspection is due and the truck has less then 1000 miles on it since the oil change in 7/11.
How long should the oil last at this rate? I mean I know I won't get 5k out pf the oil over a 10 year period. But for all I know it might be 6 months before it gets driven again so its almost not worth it to change the oil in it right now with no foreseeable work in its near future.
How long should the oil last at this rate? I mean I know I won't get 5k out pf the oil over a 10 year period. But for all I know it might be 6 months before it gets driven again so its almost not worth it to change the oil in it right now with no foreseeable work in its near future.
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At work we have an 04 f350 bucket truck with the 6.0 pad. It hardly ever gets driven. I had the oil changed 7/11 with inspection. 7/12 I had ot inspected and we had only put about 500 miles on it. Well here it is 1/13 and Im driving it again and noticed the inspection is due and the truck has less then 1000 miles on it since the oil change in 7/11.
How long should the oil last at this rate? I mean I know I won't get 5k out pf the oil over a 10 year period. But for all I know it might be 6 months before it gets driven again so its almost not worth it to change the oil in it right now with no foreseeable work in its near future.
How long should the oil last at this rate? I mean I know I won't get 5k out pf the oil over a 10 year period. But for all I know it might be 6 months before it gets driven again so its almost not worth it to change the oil in it right now with no foreseeable work in its near future.
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Its rotella oil. It gets drove maybe 10-15 times a year. It used to get drove all the time back when we were doing a lot of camera work. Now that all of our main customers have cameras in place its mainly warranty work on cameras throughout the years. Every time we go to start the truck we have to jump start it as it sits so long the batteries die on it.
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7/12 when I went to get the truck inspected I had asked them then at the quick lube who changes the oil in it all the time and they said a year into that they wouldn't change it at that time. But now here we are a year and a half later and I realized it still never got changed.
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Its rotella oil. It gets drove maybe 10-15 times a year. It used to get drove all the time back when we were doing a lot of camera work. Now that all of our main customers have cameras in place its mainly warranty work on cameras throughout the years. Every time we go to start the truck we have to jump start it as it sits so long the batteries die on it.
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I've mentioned them same thing to the higher ups. And I get told just drive the truck more often. Then I get to listen to the grip about the cost of diesel and that we shouldn't just be running the truck around when we don't need it on site. And to top it off the other guy I work with, he don't like to drive so he is always ridding with me anyways. So that just puts us in the Dodge which has all of our tools and material in anyways. So the bucket truck just sits there. Next thing I know its been months since I drove it. And we would have to run an extension cord across the parking lot to run a battery charger, that the company wont buy. So it just gets what it gets. But a quick jump and its good to go. They buy cheap Walmart batteries for it anyways "so its less the $100 to replace both batteries when time comes"
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^^^ +1; either a trickle/maintenance charger, or before using it, put it on a plug-in slow charger. It's not just the draining that is hard on the batteries, it's charging them with the alternator from a drained state. Unless you really want to maintain the radio station memory or the clock time on the radio, you should at least disconnect both negative terminals, so there's no parasitic loss.
As for the oil, if it's Rotella-T6 Synthetic, you _might_ be good out to two years. Otherwise, you're due. And DO NOT TAKE IT to a Quick-lube place. They're not to be trusted with any vehicle, and it goes doubly so for a hydraulic-injector diesel. Who knows what cr@ptastic excuse for oil they'll decide they have a surplus of, so they may as well throw in this infrequent customer's fleet truck. There's a reason the biggest of those chains is called "Iffy-Lube"....
As for the oil, if it's Rotella-T6 Synthetic, you _might_ be good out to two years. Otherwise, you're due. And DO NOT TAKE IT to a Quick-lube place. They're not to be trusted with any vehicle, and it goes doubly so for a hydraulic-injector diesel. Who knows what cr@ptastic excuse for oil they'll decide they have a surplus of, so they may as well throw in this infrequent customer's fleet truck. There's a reason the biggest of those chains is called "Iffy-Lube"....
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They one we take it too keeps rotella on the shelf by the gallon jug. I watch them each oil change. The guy that runs it is an old family friend so I trust them with it.
I'm sure ill get it changed next time I drive it if I have time to swing in there and inspect it. To easy not to have it all dine at once.
As far as the batteries, I know there is concern to be had. But the same batteries have been in the truck since before I started 5 years ago and I don't see anything changing on them now.
I'm sure ill get it changed next time I drive it if I have time to swing in there and inspect it. To easy not to have it all dine at once.
As far as the batteries, I know there is concern to be had. But the same batteries have been in the truck since before I started 5 years ago and I don't see anything changing on them now.
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Then have them fit this to the truck: Streamlight SolarStream™ Series - Streamlight SolarStream™ | Streamlight
It will keep the thing's battery charged and hopefully help lengthen the FICM's life.
It will keep the thing's battery charged and hopefully help lengthen the FICM's life.
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At work we have an 04 f350 bucket truck with the 6.0 pad. It hardly ever gets driven. I had the oil changed 7/11 with inspection. 7/12 I had ot inspected and we had only put about 500 miles on it. Well here it is 1/13 and Im driving it again and noticed the inspection is due and the truck has less then 1000 miles on it since the oil change in 7/11.
How long should the oil last at this rate? I mean I know I won't get 5k out pf the oil over a 10 year period. But for all I know it might be 6 months before it gets driven again so its almost not worth it to change the oil in it right now with no foreseeable work in its near future.
How long should the oil last at this rate? I mean I know I won't get 5k out pf the oil over a 10 year period. But for all I know it might be 6 months before it gets driven again so its almost not worth it to change the oil in it right now with no foreseeable work in its near future.
I would have the oil analyzed by Blackstone Labs and have your question answered by the pro's
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^^^^^^ +1; with any "unusual" circumstances (ext. high miles, ext. low miles, short trips, extended idling, extended non-use, etc.), it's always good to do an oil change and UOA. Be very specific about the op. conditions on the return form; these get individual attention at Blackstone, and they take your descriptive info into account.
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