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Still getting the feel of the 2005 F250 diesel 6.0 I picked up last Thursday. The LED read out has a section listed as engine hours. I know I am going to ask a stupid question but what does engine hours mean? Thanks.
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Originally Posted by helix-2000
Still getting the feel of the 2005 F250 diesel 6.0 I picked up last Thursday. The LED read out has a section listed as engine hours. I know I am going to ask a stupid question but what does engine hours mean? Thanks.
Carl
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If you do the math on 5000 miles @ the average speed you travel daily it will tell you what the oil change interval in hours should be.
IE my daily trip to work is about 55 mph so I take 5000 miles / 55 and I come up with 90.9 hours.
7500 miles / 50mph is 150 hours
So if you are really into using the hourmeter feature I would say that 100 hours would be the norm oil change interval.
This is a feature that I thought should have been standard in all diesel trucks years ago. The mileage can differ greatly from hours used if alot of in town driving is done versus alot of highway mileage.
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The number of hours the engine has been run. Diesel's tend to require maintenance at a set number of hours of use, instead of per mile on the gas engines. I'm still learning about diesel's myself, so some of the guru's here will correct me if I am wrong.
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Originally Posted by swanee
How about calculating revolutions. How many more times did a crankshaft turn on a truck with a 4.10 rear compared to a truck with a 3.73 rear over 100,000 miles.
wouldn't this be very difficult to calculate, RPM's are widely variable. Then again, I hate math, so it may be a piece of cake to some....
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"How about calculating revolutions. How many more times did a crankshaft turn on a truck with a 4.10 rear compared to a truck with a 3.73 rear over 100,000 miles."
Yeah, we need to tell Ford we want this gauge as an option for 07 with the new motor, a Crankometer. I can see it now, probably be about as accurate as the Trans temp gauge.
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Yeah, we need to tell Ford we want this gauge as an option for 07 with the new motor, a Crankometer. I can see it now, probably be about as accurate as the Trans temp gauge.
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Originally Posted by mrxlh
This is a feature that I thought should have been standard in all diesel trucks years ago. The mileage can differ greatly from hours used if alot of in town driving is done versus alot of highway mileage.
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I think this should've been standard on all cars many years ago, because that way you can really tell if all those miles are highway or not. I don't want a 5 year old car with 30,000 miles on it but 10000 hours. I want a 5 year old car with 130,000 miles on it but 5000 hours.
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Originally Posted by swanee
How about calculating revolutions. How many more times did a crankshaft turn on a truck with a 4.10 rear compared to a truck with a 3.73 rear over 100,000 miles.
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There are countless things to consider . The first thing that comes to mind is my 3.73 is more likely to downshift going up a hill consequently putting more wear on the engine over a given distance. All things being equal I really don't know which engine with different rear ends would be worse for the wear.
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