922,832 Mile Ford F350 AlumiDuty | Repairs and Maintenance

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Sintesi

TLDRIn an engaging discussion, Derek shares his maintenance routine for his truck, which has achieved over 923,000 miles. Transitioning from a corrections officer to an RV transporter, he emphasizes the importance of regular fluid and filter changes, particularly using a bypass oil filter that has proven crucial for engine longevity. Derek’s preventive measures include oil analysis—changing oil every 15 to 30,000 miles—and strict adherence to maintenance schedules for essential components like fuel filters and brakes. He also recommends using quality fuel additives and a cautious, measured driving approach to enhance vehicle lifespan. He discusses various aftermarket modifications that assist in maintaining engine temperatures and performance.

Punti di forza

  • 🚛 Derek has over 923,000 miles on his truck!
  • 🔧 Regular maintenance is key for longevity.
  • 🛢️ A bypass oil filter is critical for engine health.
  • 📊 15,000 to 30,000-mile oil change intervals based on analysis.
  • ☑️ Fuel and oil additives enhance performance.
  • 🛠️ Use quality aftermarket parts for better cooling.
  • 🌡️ Engine temperature management is crucial while towing.
  • 💡 Regular tire rotations improve safety and performance.
  • 🚗 Drive steadily to reduce wear and tear.
  • 📝 Keep track of all maintenance to ensure consistent performance.

Linea temporale

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Derek discusses his experience as an RV transporter and his truck's current mileage of over 923,000 miles, sharing insights about the trucks he owns and the maintenance challenges he's faced.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Transitioning from being a corrections officer, Derek entered the trucking business and started hauling landscape supplies before discovering RV transport through connections in the cart racing community.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Derek emphasizes the importance of fluids and filters for truck maintenance, specifically mentioning a bypass oil filter that he believes significantly contributes to his truck's longevity.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    He shares details about his fuel additive regimen, using the Ford additive consistently, especially during cold weather, and attributes the longevity of his CP4 pump to this practice.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Derek outlines his oil change intervals, pushing them to 15,000 miles and occasionally up to 30,000 miles based on oil testing, and discusses different types of oil he uses for his truck.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    He details his regular maintenance schedule for fuel filters, transmission fluids, differentials, and mentions that he hasn't kept as close track of transfer case maintenance, suggesting improvement in that area.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:39:18

    Derek concludes by sharing insights on proper driving habits, regular truck use versus letting it sit, and the importance of starting and driving without excessive idling for overall vehicle longevity.

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Video Domande e Risposte

  • How does Derek maintain his truck?

    Derek maintains his truck by regularly changing fluids and filters, using a bypass oil filter for better longevity.

  • What driving habits does Derek follow?

    Derek uses cruise control when towing and manually downshifts when approaching steep hills to preserve the transmission.

  • What oil change intervals does Derek usually follow?

    Derek typically changes his oil every 15,000 miles but has gone up to 30,000 miles based on oil analysis.

  • What kind of fuel additive does Derek use?

    Derek uses Ford fuel additives to maintain the health of his diesel engine.

  • What aftermarket modifications has Derek made to his truck?

    Derek has added a Mishimoto transmission cooler, radiator, and De-gas tanks.

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  • 00:00:00
    Derek thanks so much for being here no
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    problem appreciate you we're gonna go
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    through dereck's truck Dereck is a RV
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    transporter and does a ton of miles and
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    what's the the truck at right now uh
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    it's 923,50
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    got one and we're running well yes I
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    mean it came out the summer before I
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    think or the fall before yeah uh but
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    yeah I I I I have a 2011 as well with
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    725,000 Mi on it and when I bought this
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    6 days later a glow plug broke in that
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    other truck while I Was preparing to
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    leave to get a camper CU I wasn't using
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    this to tow yet right and it got
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    ingested into the engine and broke some
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    push rods and oh no yeah so then how did
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    you how did you get
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    into RV transport from being a
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    corrections officer and you said you did
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    a little like local hauling um yeah so
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    when I when I when I left doing
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    Corrections um my snow removal business
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    was really busy so that's why I left
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    that and
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    um I got into the
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    hauling landscape supplies um when it in
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    the you know spring fall and summer you
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    know when it wasn't snowing
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    and so I could keep the trucks working
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    right and um that that business ended up
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    phasing out not my end but their end
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    right so I was looking for something to
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    do in the summer gotcha and my my son
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    did cart racing yeah um and I met
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    somebody in cart racing who was doing
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    this right and he said why don't you try
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    doing that and I was like well I'll give
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    it a try that was so I met him in the
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    summer of 2011 and in the February March
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    of 2012 is when I started wow with the
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    same same Transport company I've been
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    with the whole time so yeah well that's
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    really cool well uh I appreciate all
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    that background and I think you know I
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    just really want to hear what you do to
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    maintain this truck so I think we'll
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    kind of like start through some things
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    like we can start at the top with fluids
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    and filters which is you know kind of
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    the basics uh because that's obviously
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    what I and I'm sure
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    a lot of folks uh watching are going to
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    want to know what exactly you've done to
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    get a truck to 9 22,000 so yeah let's
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    start I mean fluids and filters what's
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    uh well what are you doing to to me also
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    too I'm glad you said that fuel fuel
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    filters and and fluids are definitely
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    the most important thing other than how
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    you drive it of course okay um without a
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    doubt without a doubt um cuz so the most
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    important thing I've done with this is a
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    bypass oil
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    filter um that is the without a doubt I
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    think the I I I would never own another
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    internal combustion engine ever and it
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    doesn't matter what it is without one of
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    these filters in if I'm going to keep it
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    you know like right doing this work as
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    you know you don't go through a truck
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    every year you're going to get a truck
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    and you're going to keep it and you're
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    going to run it right into the ground
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    take care of it right you take care of
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    it it's going to take care of you right
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    cuz the longer it lasts the better your
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    profit margins are right yeah right like
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    as soon as you get it paid off or
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    whatever then everything after that you
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    know you just maintenance and it's all
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    gravy right um so but I did the bypass
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    filter I did some uh I did some research
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    you know and I was checking out
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    different bypass filters and whatnot and
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    um the reason I I didn't even know about
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    B let me back up I didn't even know
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    about bypass filters but when I was
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    looking at ways to make my truck last
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    longer that kept coming up okay so then
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    I started looking at them and I was like
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    oh this will make my truck last longer
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    and it'll help me save money and of
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    course doing this type of work you know
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    you everything you can save it's a
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    increase your profit of course with any
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    type of other business so right so um
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    you know with oil testing I know in some
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    your previous videos with lake and stuff
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    you do oil analysis and um which is
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    fantastic I mean I've gone 30,000 mil
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    sometimes without oil change wow because
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    it the testing says it's fine and as he
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    says it's not what it's not speculation
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    right you know yeah you know it's it's
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    it's data it's real life data right my
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    engine that I had in this this is a new
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    engine was featured in Dave's Auto
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    Center one of his videos right right um
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    and uh if you see the inside of that
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    engine then you'll be like that can't be
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    real but it's 100% real I mean right and
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    you got
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    892 out of that original that was
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    original engine and original
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    transmission
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    $892,000 miles and original cp4 pump man
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    too yeah that is that is crazy so I I
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    mean talking about the cp4 so it sounds
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    like what's your what's your normal
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    protection plan for the cp4 I know you'd
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    mentioned kind of before we started the
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    video uh that you ran the Ford additive
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    and then and then then something else
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    you also put in what were you running
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    for your additive mix okay so not fuel
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    additive not the whole life of this not
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    a drop of fuel has been in it without
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    the Ford additive okay um it tested
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    really good I can I'll provide you with
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    that information after if you'd like um
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    so you can see um but it tested really
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    good in the top five of all the
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    additives and this was you know 10 years
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    ago whatever before I had this truck
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    even right right right right and um you
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    know and in the winter I would add it I
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    would keep that additive but just put an
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    antiel additive add to it so I would be
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    overdosing and I overdose anyway right
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    you know it says I think it's like 4 o
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    or 5 O for every 25 gallons and I would
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    put you just round up no I way way up
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    cuz cuz the tank in the back's 118
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    gallons and I would if it was empty I
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    would put two bottles so 40 ounces and
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    then I would put one bottle in the 50
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    gallon tank right and I just overtreat
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    it and people say oh you're wasting too
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    much M you're wasting a lot of money
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    doing a lot extra and I was like well I
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    mean my cp4 pump is lasted 900,000 miles
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    so I guess I'll stick with bad for it so
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    and then uh the the company that I the
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    diesel the sorry Oil Filter Company I
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    use insane diesel they also make an
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    additive now as well as oil so when once
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    they came out with their oil and
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    additive I started using that um it's
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    called Lorenzo's Oil but I add it to the
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    Ford stuff I I won't stop using the Ford
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    stuff for there's something good about
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    it I I forgot to ask like what are your
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    oil change intervals normally so you
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    said you went 30,000 and the oil was
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    fine on one interval what what's like
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    normal for you then uh 15 15,000 started
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    doing the 30 um when I knew the
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    um okay so you spend as much time in the
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    vehicles as we do when you hear things
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    you know things don't sound right you
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    just know it right right and so I was
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    like 900,000 Mi I'm sure my run is
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    coming to an end right so I started
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    pushing my oil changes so when I started
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    you know just like a lot of people that
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    I'm sure are going to watch this are be
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    like oh three 5 th 3 to 5,000 miles have
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    to change have to change have to change
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    so of course that was in my head right
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    and so when I put the filter on I was
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    like I change it at 5,000 and test the
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    oil change it at another 5,000 test you
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    know so I did it to get kind of a
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    baseline right and then I upped it to 10
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    okay between intervals and then I upped
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    it to 15 and at 15 I'm like you know
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    what I'm playing with house money I'm
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    saving two oil changes right so there
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    400 bucks right there I'm saving right
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    okay which is $400 a month right so why
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    push it I'll just change the in the
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    filters but but the longest you ever did
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    was 30,000 28 somewhere around there
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    yeah yeah yeah and it's still tested
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    okay I mean it wasn't like it was at
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    what kind of oil what kind of oil was
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    that again okay so I started using um
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    mobile one delvac 1540 okay ESP um the
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    the the gray the gray bottle for some
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    reason they have delvac and it's not
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    synthetic and it's in a black bottle but
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    it's called it says delac on it the same
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    I don't understand it but anyway um and
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    then it with Lucas Oil which I stopped
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    using Lucas Oil when Lakes speed said I
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    was wasting my money yeah uh but anyway
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    and then I uh at around 700 to 750,000 I
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    started using the Loren
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    Lorenzo insane diesel sells Lorenzo's
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    Oil yeah um same 1540 um I started using
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    that so so what are you doing then for
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    like fuel filters I know you said
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    earlier we were chatting you're still
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    running the OEM plastic upper and then
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    the lower water separator filter what
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    are your intervals for those I change
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    those anytime I change my oil or filters
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    so for whatever reason I change the fuel
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    filters okay okay unless when I pushed
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    it to 27 25,000 I changed it to 15,000
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    okay I didn't but if I have a so it's
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    like oil change or 15,000 so as you're
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    familiar with I had upper o upper and
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    lower oil pan leak right and that was
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    recently after an oil change you know
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    like a few thousand several thousand
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    miles whatever right so when I did that
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    of course you get new oil right and
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    filters so I did my fuel filters just
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    because it's easier for me to keep track
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    of if I just keep everything on the
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    schedule same with transmission and
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    coolant I do those every 50,000 miles no
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    matter what um and I don't flush
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    anything I drain and fill the
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    transmission I take the pan drop the pan
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    and change the filter every time um and
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    if I have a coolant leak or something or
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    I need to replace a radiator
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    and the coolant going to be drained and
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    it's been 20,000 mil then I'm I'm doing
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    the transmission too the same time you
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    know to keep on the same 50,000 schedule
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    so yeah yeah um gotcha what about um so
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    you do do you do transfer case too when
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    you do the transmission uh what about
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    like your transfer case and your
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    differentials that one I could be a
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    little bit better on okay um oh that's I
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    couldn't I can't remember the last time
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    I did the transfer case okay or the
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    front differential I've done it I just
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    just can't remember when I recently did
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    the rear I Put A A banks um diff cover
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    and changed that okay um and I hadn't
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    done that in a long long time that's
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    those are things that I have neglected a
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    little bit yeah but I mean but they
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    still look brand new on the inside so
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    well you said what out of your original
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    trans so you had uh when your original
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    motor went at 892 you also did the trans
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    just cuz you're like I was going to save
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    the labor yeah and it was getting tired
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    I could feel it it wasn't slipping but
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    you could you could just tell you know
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    just did they do the transfer case then
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    too when they did the trans was it trans
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    transfer case and no just the
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    transmission okay yeah so I mean it even
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    though you don't know the last time you
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    did the transfer case it's obviously not
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    hurting it too bad if it's got 923 right
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    and the full drive still works and hey
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    that's all you can ask for it didn't
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    work well a couple years ago when we
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    when we first moved um but come to find
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    out all the seals and the in axle seals
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    in the front had to all be redone that
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    was a big job yeah sorry if I'm jumping
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    around a little bit but the wheel
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    bearings I've done each side probably
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    half a dozen times half a dozen okay and
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    what do you get for mileage out of on
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    average out of each set of I don't even
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    know I I don't even would know how to
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    keep I never kept track of that you
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    don't do them at a certain mileage you
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    just wait until they go and then you
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    just replace yeah and and I know I sound
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    like a broken record but and you hear
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    things and you know like one time I went
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    to the dealer and I was like oh yeah
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    that the right front wheel bearing is
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    going too okay we'll check it out we're
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    doing the oil change yeah yeah no it's
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    fine it's fine I said no it's going
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    going it's it's not right it's going no
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    no it's fine it's fine okay it's and it
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    was a warranty part cuz that had been
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    done within cuz Ford has a good you know
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    two-year unlimited while mile warranty
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    on their parts and labor right right so
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    I leave to go get another camper and I
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    come back I was back you know a few days
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    later and I was
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    like you need to replace it it's going
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    and they brought it in they were like oh
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    yeah yeah it's going I'm like can you
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    just listen to Somebody That yeah it the
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    first time yeah I'm not a I'm not a tech
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    I'm not a mechanic but I know the sounds
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    this is supposed to make and the ones
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    it's not supposed to make I mean yeah if
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    if you've driven this thing 923 you've
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    probably spent more time around power
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    strokes than most techs have just
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    because you've been in it so much you
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    know I mean that's that's a lot of time
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    you know uh so yeah so as far I know you
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    asked me some questions before about you
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    know like you know things I've replaced
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    on the truck and things on the truck
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    I've replaced you know I'm going to take
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    all the suspension stuff out we don't
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    have to I mean if that's okay with you
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    we don't need to talk about that cuz
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    that's all been done multiple sets of
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    shocks you know Tyrod joints ball joints
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    you just run like the OEM yeah just the
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    OEM shocks y I've done I've think I've
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    only done those twice I think okay the
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    originals and one other set okay I'm
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    just I'm just looking at my list of like
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    question Notes too to make sure um you
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    know yeah okay so yeah and you said
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    you've been through like multiple sets
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    of like the Ty rod ends and like track
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    bar ball joints that fun stuff yeah yeah
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    yeah and there's you said there there's
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    not really any Rhyme or Reason when
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    those fail like how often how many sets
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    of ball joints have you done I haven't I
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    don't remember cuz some of them are
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    warranty too like a lot of them will
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    fail which I don't want anything to fail
  • 00:13:46
    ever but right please fail within the
  • 00:13:48
    two years after I do it because you know
  • 00:13:51
    I just cuz that's easy cuz I I like to
  • 00:13:54
    go to my dealer you know goni Ford we
  • 00:13:56
    talked about in in B New Hampshire but I
  • 00:13:58
    like go there but if it's a warranty
  • 00:14:02
    item I'll just go to any Ford dealer it
  • 00:14:04
    doesn't matter you know and right so
  • 00:14:06
    that and I'm on the road so much I only
  • 00:14:08
    go back
  • 00:14:10
    East um
  • 00:14:12
    occasionally and usually well when I
  • 00:14:15
    need service I go back I I always plan a
  • 00:14:17
    trip to go back and get service and but
  • 00:14:20
    yeah I hope I don't hope if if
  • 00:14:22
    something's going to fail I hope it
  • 00:14:23
    happens within the waranty period so I
  • 00:14:24
    can just get it fixed anywhere when I'm
  • 00:14:26
    on the road no that's natural yeah what
  • 00:14:28
    is uh what's your Wheel and Tire setup
  • 00:14:31
    uh just the stock 20-in rims for the
  • 00:14:34
    Platinum the tires are just stock size
  • 00:14:36
    275 with 6520 okay um right now I have
  • 00:14:41
    the there the Toyo HTS on like a Highway
  • 00:14:45
    Tire um it's just nice and quiet good
  • 00:14:48
    ride yeah and what do you get for
  • 00:14:50
    mileage out of your tires uh 100K on
  • 00:14:54
    average at least um usually almost same
  • 00:14:56
    with brakes 100K for brakes and tires so
  • 00:15:00
    how often are you rotating your tires
  • 00:15:02
    then I I rotate them I monitor it and I
  • 00:15:05
    rotate them so usually Tech will tell
  • 00:15:09
    you to put your best tires in the front
  • 00:15:10
    right okay but hauling campers all the
  • 00:15:13
    weight's in the rear so I always have my
  • 00:15:14
    best tires on the rear so anytime when I
  • 00:15:17
    go get service they say do you want to
  • 00:15:19
    rotate I say I want the best tires in
  • 00:15:21
    the rear so if it if the best tires are
  • 00:15:23
    already in the rear then I don't rotate
  • 00:15:25
    but sometimes they're not so then they
  • 00:15:26
    rotate okay interesting
  • 00:15:30
    funky right right right interesting so
  • 00:15:33
    so you're so if if you're getting funky
  • 00:15:36
    wear on a rear tire then what so you
  • 00:15:38
    move it to the front then is that kind
  • 00:15:40
    of I just go with their recommendation
  • 00:15:42
    yeah okay interesting oh wow and 100K
  • 00:15:46
    out of out of tires how how did you come
  • 00:15:49
    to decide on the Toyo HTS they're just
  • 00:15:51
    something you tried and you yeah well I
  • 00:15:54
    had some Michelin before and I really
  • 00:15:56
    like the Toyo AT3
  • 00:15:59
    the alter tires they're really nice
  • 00:16:01
    tires and I was like oh why don't I try
  • 00:16:03
    the their Highway Tire cuz I was using
  • 00:16:05
    the Michelin Defender Ms I think it was
  • 00:16:09
    called yeah yeah yeah and um M and they
  • 00:16:11
    were nice but you know they're they're
  • 00:16:13
    they're a lot more expensive toyos they
  • 00:16:16
    are yeah so I tried these and I I really
  • 00:16:18
    like them they're they're they're they
  • 00:16:20
    seem to be really nice they're really
  • 00:16:21
    good in the rain and they're pretty good
  • 00:16:23
    in the snow too actually you know
  • 00:16:25
    there's got some nice grooves in there
  • 00:16:27
    and shs the sheds the slush and
  • 00:16:29
    everything pretty well yeah yeah yeah
  • 00:16:31
    nice like the I mean they're not really
  • 00:16:33
    attractive you know so to speak you know
  • 00:16:35
    you don't get that nice truck look but
  • 00:16:37
    whatever yeah the Aesthetics don't pay
  • 00:16:38
    the bills though exactly exactly that's
  • 00:16:41
    awesome no I mean and 100K out of a set
  • 00:16:44
    of tires isn't is incredible and uh yeah
  • 00:16:48
    I mean they they look like they have
  • 00:16:50
    really nice tread blocks on them so
  • 00:16:52
    definitely can't complain there um what
  • 00:16:55
    else like what else would you like to
  • 00:16:56
    add on the maintenance stuff um
  • 00:16:59
    maintenance stuff um before we well
  • 00:17:02
    there were some people if you don't mind
  • 00:17:03
    me just putting my own thing here there
  • 00:17:06
    were some people on that video with Dave
  • 00:17:07
    that were like you know full of you know
  • 00:17:10
    what and doesn't have this many
  • 00:17:12
    miles basically they're saying you were
  • 00:17:14
    a bullshitter yeah basically basically
  • 00:17:17
    yeah so some of the other things I did
  • 00:17:19
    uh so the so my exhaust manifolds bolts
  • 00:17:23
    broke once and the hot exhaust melted my
  • 00:17:30
    crossover tube gasket so that had to all
  • 00:17:33
    come apart upper end to do that um I've
  • 00:17:36
    done the oera oil pan twice second time
  • 00:17:40
    was under warranty yeah um I had a new
  • 00:17:44
    rear cover the second time because a
  • 00:17:47
    dealer I had to do the upper oil pan at
  • 00:17:50
    not my regular dealer okay cuz it was
  • 00:17:53
    get to the point where it's leaking
  • 00:17:54
    really bad I mean I was going with the
  • 00:17:56
    whole seeping thing like you know kind
  • 00:17:58
    of my yeah so I kind of went with that
  • 00:18:00
    for a while until it was leaving puddles
  • 00:18:02
    and I was like I got to take care of
  • 00:18:04
    this and so um where I took care of it
  • 00:18:07
    when they put it back together they
  • 00:18:09
    stripped up so there's threads in the
  • 00:18:12
    rear cover okay and when you lock those
  • 00:18:15
    down it locks the upper oil pan down mhm
  • 00:18:18
    so they stri the
  • 00:18:20
    threads oh when they did the original
  • 00:18:22
    repair so when I it was leaking because
  • 00:18:24
    that's where it was leaking where it
  • 00:18:25
    wasn't tight where it wasn't to where
  • 00:18:27
    the threads were stripped yep so when I
  • 00:18:29
    got it so my dealer warrantied the upper
  • 00:18:33
    oil pan but they wouldn't warranty
  • 00:18:35
    because they didn't strip it they
  • 00:18:36
    wouldn't warrantee their cover and of
  • 00:18:38
    course they didn't know until they put
  • 00:18:39
    it all back together so then they had to
  • 00:18:41
    take it apart and recan it so it was an
  • 00:18:43
    extra 5 hours of Labor and so anyway but
  • 00:18:46
    the dealer that did it was they're
  • 00:18:47
    working with me and they give me a you
  • 00:18:49
    know they were going to send me a check
  • 00:18:50
    and I was like why don't you just give
  • 00:18:51
    me a credit at your dealer so right
  • 00:18:52
    right so I got a credit I'm working off
  • 00:18:54
    that now no that's fair but yeah so I've
  • 00:18:56
    done that I my my original turbo and the
  • 00:18:59
    injectors lasted to 675,000 Mi wow so I
  • 00:19:04
    rep original turbo yeah I replaced those
  • 00:19:06
    at that point the injectors I didn't
  • 00:19:08
    need to replace but they were doing the
  • 00:19:10
    turbo so I figured why not yeah freshen
  • 00:19:12
    up a little bit so I just did that at
  • 00:19:14
    the same time okay
  • 00:19:16
    um you know a bunch of normal just
  • 00:19:20
    little stuff I mean I've been through
  • 00:19:21
    several radiators uh eight seven eight
  • 00:19:24
    windshields yeah
  • 00:19:26
    um uh other than than regular
  • 00:19:29
    maintenance stuff other than that I not
  • 00:19:31
    that I can't think of anything of brakes
  • 00:19:34
    of course and you know brakes and rotors
  • 00:19:36
    I I think another important maintenance
  • 00:19:37
    item too that a lot of people Overlook
  • 00:19:39
    is I try to do my I do a caliper service
  • 00:19:42
    every 25 to 40,000 miles take apart the
  • 00:19:45
    calipers Grease the pins all that stuff
  • 00:19:47
    a lot of people forget to overlook that
  • 00:19:49
    and just do it when they need brakes
  • 00:19:52
    yeah I think that's why my brakes last
  • 00:19:54
    100,000 miles is cuz I do it every 25
  • 00:19:56
    35,000 miles my my fronts I got
  • 00:20:01
    120 or
  • 00:20:04
    125 out of my fronts yeah at like the
  • 00:20:07
    rotors and I think I I had to do pads
  • 00:20:09
    once but my brother he's a mechanic and
  • 00:20:13
    says the same thing he he likes to do
  • 00:20:14
    slide pin every 50,000 is what he tries
  • 00:20:17
    to do so that's what I've been doing on
  • 00:20:18
    mine and definitely cuz they get all
  • 00:20:20
    stuck you know with the brake
  • 00:20:21
    dust the the the
  • 00:20:24
    pads yeah they're they're grabbing too
  • 00:20:26
    much right and they'll you know so yeah
  • 00:20:29
    yeah and the dealer recommends 25,000 so
  • 00:20:31
    really for slide pins interesting so I
  • 00:20:34
    try to do I do a little bit longer if I
  • 00:20:37
    happen to be in at 25 for something else
  • 00:20:39
    right and they have time I'll do it just
  • 00:20:41
    do it I mean it is like a really pretty
  • 00:20:43
    easy service to do too if my brakes are
  • 00:20:46
    getting
  • 00:20:47
    low not low to the point of replacing
  • 00:20:49
    but I'm going to need to do it within a
  • 00:20:51
    month right and I'm due for one of those
  • 00:20:52
    Services I won't do it I'll wait until I
  • 00:20:54
    need the brakes cuz they're going to do
  • 00:20:55
    that when you get the brakes so right
  • 00:20:57
    right right I'll save the cuz a that's a
  • 00:20:59
    that's a it's you know I don't do any of
  • 00:21:01
    my maintenance like you do so and that's
  • 00:21:03
    a that's a costly one I mean that's $200
  • 00:21:05
    something doll per axle yeah to do that
  • 00:21:07
    and uh you know so not cheap no well why
  • 00:21:11
    don't we uh change gears and uh take a
  • 00:21:13
    look under the hood if if you're up for
  • 00:21:15
    that all right so we talked about kind
  • 00:21:19
    of what maintenance you've done on this
  • 00:21:21
    thing um walk us through like what
  • 00:21:25
    aftermarket stuff do you have in here I
  • 00:21:26
    mean I see you still have the stock
  • 00:21:28
    plastic intake and obviously this is the
  • 00:21:30
    newer engine the only aftermarket thing
  • 00:21:32
    for the previous engine was that oil
  • 00:21:34
    filter wow which is the bet I'm telling
  • 00:21:37
    you I know I'm going to sound like a
  • 00:21:38
    broken record but if anybody doesn't run
  • 00:21:40
    right out and get one of these and they
  • 00:21:41
    want their truck to last a long time I I
  • 00:21:43
    there's nothing I can do to help you cuz
  • 00:21:45
    to me that is the number one thing why
  • 00:21:48
    this truck lasted that long other than
  • 00:21:51
    you know me driving with a level head
  • 00:21:53
    right um you know I don't drive it like
  • 00:21:55
    a RAC truck
  • 00:21:56
    um this obviously was also aftermarket
  • 00:22:00
    for the life of the truck SBB cold side
  • 00:22:03
    yeah yep okay so but now so with the new
  • 00:22:06
    engine I've added the bigger dgas tanks
  • 00:22:08
    from
  • 00:22:08
    mishimoto uh mishimoto radiator and um
  • 00:22:13
    my newest favorite edition is the
  • 00:22:16
    mishimoto transmission cooler that thing
  • 00:22:18
    is the cat's ass is so it's the pan
  • 00:22:21
    right it's a deeper pan or do you
  • 00:22:22
    actually get cooler right here oh wow
  • 00:22:25
    goes right across the front and so in
  • 00:22:27
    front of the stock radiator my
  • 00:22:28
    transmission runs 50° to cooler wow it
  • 00:22:31
    did my and my cool my coolant
  • 00:22:34
    is 20 10
  • 00:22:38
    uh it runs about 190 okay um and when
  • 00:22:41
    I'm towing it maybe 192 193 and with my
  • 00:22:44
    old engine before it before the lifters
  • 00:22:47
    failed it was my trans my oil was at
  • 00:22:51
    245 wow my transmission was at 225 and
  • 00:22:55
    same with my coolant was 225 wow and now
  • 00:22:58
    my coolant running in the low 190s my
  • 00:23:00
    oil when I'm not Towing is in the low
  • 00:23:03
    190s and my uh what was the other one
  • 00:23:06
    transmission oh yeah transmission when
  • 00:23:08
    I'm not Towing is 140 wow and it was you
  • 00:23:11
    know in the yep 200 when I wasn't Towing
  • 00:23:13
    okay so those numbers I gave you before
  • 00:23:15
    were Towing so when I wasn't Towing my
  • 00:23:17
    coolant was 196 my oil was 200 198 okay
  • 00:23:23
    and uh my transmission was you know 195
  • 00:23:26
    190 so you know somewhere close to where
  • 00:23:28
    the coent was okay um wow they were all
  • 00:23:31
    close to each other when I wasn't Towing
  • 00:23:34
    right um but this stuff makes a big deal
  • 00:23:38
    the the mishimoto dgas tanks and the
  • 00:23:41
    radiator just those I think it's um was
  • 00:23:45
    three gallons maybe extra coolant okay
  • 00:23:48
    so you're running a lot of extra coolant
  • 00:23:50
    a lot of coolant and the radiator is so
  • 00:23:52
    there's so much more I think it's like
  • 00:23:53
    34 or 37% more surface area on the
  • 00:23:56
    radiator wow than the stock Ford
  • 00:23:59
    um and it's got a lifetime warranty will
  • 00:24:02
    which I will be utilizing cuz you can't
  • 00:24:04
    see it on the camera but I'm standing on
  • 00:24:05
    a cardboard piece of cardboard right now
  • 00:24:07
    cuz I'm leaking some coolant in uh Harry
  • 00:24:09
    oh in Harry's Harry's driveway so yeah
  • 00:24:12
    yeah um but they're sending me one next
  • 00:24:13
    week and um I'll get that put in and
  • 00:24:17
    nice be on my Merry way but yeah no so
  • 00:24:19
    that's so you got the the mishimoto
  • 00:24:22
    stuff the trans cooler radiator the de
  • 00:24:25
    gas tanks and the intake and that's it
  • 00:24:28
    for now for now right for oh in the um
  • 00:24:31
    you know the banks diff cover that was a
  • 00:24:34
    recent thing too so right right right
  • 00:24:36
    but then you know once once I can I'm
  • 00:24:39
    going to do The Pusher intake and I'm
  • 00:24:41
    probably going to do all The Pusher
  • 00:24:44
    piping
  • 00:24:45
    [Music]
  • 00:24:46
    um yeah I mean Derek you've like I mean
  • 00:24:51
    this this truck especially on the
  • 00:24:54
    outside when you pulled and I was blown
  • 00:24:55
    away by how you know clean it looks like
  • 00:24:58
    it doesn't look bad at all I know it's
  • 00:25:00
    you know it's highway miles but still
  • 00:25:02
    you know you're you're towing you're
  • 00:25:03
    running a lot of miles you're running
  • 00:25:06
    hard um it's it's really awesome just to
  • 00:25:10
    see how how well taken care of this
  • 00:25:12
    thing is yeah I I thank you I I
  • 00:25:14
    appreciate that I I I I don't want
  • 00:25:18
    to hurry things up but I can't wait till
  • 00:25:22
    summer um not for the reason most people
  • 00:25:25
    think but I want to tow you know like
  • 00:25:27
    Towing across the Nebraska or up I25
  • 00:25:30
    into Wyoming um you know with my old
  • 00:25:33
    engine in that when sometimes it's 100°
  • 00:25:35
    and going up those Hills I would be
  • 00:25:38
    doing 30 and an 80 right you know and uh
  • 00:25:42
    I want to see how all this stuff the new
  • 00:25:44
    coolant performs transmission performs
  • 00:25:47
    in the heat so you touched on it briefly
  • 00:25:50
    there and a little bit earlier when we
  • 00:25:52
    were talking but driving habits M what
  • 00:25:56
    you even just mentioned like you slow
  • 00:25:57
    down you you were slowing down when it
  • 00:25:59
    got too hot to like 30 going up hills
  • 00:26:02
    what uh what what are your driving
  • 00:26:04
    Habits Like with these trucks when
  • 00:26:06
    you're towing well I when I'm towing I
  • 00:26:09
    use I'm a big cruise control guy okay so
  • 00:26:11
    I set it on cruise um this of course is
  • 00:26:14
    a little fancier of a truck so you know
  • 00:26:17
    I have the radar the radar and the
  • 00:26:18
    cruise control so I set it at
  • 00:26:21
    65 when I'm towing and go um okay if
  • 00:26:24
    there's a steep hill I will I will
  • 00:26:26
    manually downshift to f GE okay cuz I
  • 00:26:29
    don't want it to you know when you slam
  • 00:26:32
    that when it slams right down when it
  • 00:26:34
    when it shifts down um the
  • 00:26:38
    uh I I don't shift it down and I don't
  • 00:26:41
    want it to shift down after I've dropped
  • 00:26:44
    off my the speed I have it set at okay
  • 00:26:47
    so when I know a Hill's coming up I'll
  • 00:26:48
    shift it down while I'm still at speed
  • 00:26:51
    cuz then it's not it doesn't it doesn't
  • 00:26:52
    hit like a hammer downar yeah it doesn't
  • 00:26:54
    hit like a hammer and um it just kind of
  • 00:26:57
    just just a little quick little shift
  • 00:26:59
    yeah but when I'm if I'm set at 65 and
  • 00:27:01
    I'm doing 58 and then I downshift it
  • 00:27:03
    manually it's like Wham you know and it
  • 00:27:05
    really you know it shifts really hard on
  • 00:27:07
    the yeah so I do that to try to save
  • 00:27:10
    things um going through Hills like
  • 00:27:12
    Towing back East towards Vermont um or
  • 00:27:15
    in through Vermont there's a lot of
  • 00:27:16
    steep hills there and I'll you know it's
  • 00:27:18
    50 mph speed limit with some curves but
  • 00:27:20
    I'll just I'll do 35 up those Hills okay
  • 00:27:23
    you know not not because the truck's
  • 00:27:25
    Limited at that cuz I want to save it
  • 00:27:28
    I'm getting a little wiser in my old age
  • 00:27:29
    so I figure you know let's make it you
  • 00:27:32
    know it was $37,000 to do this with the
  • 00:27:34
    transmission and the Mishi Moto stuff
  • 00:27:37
    and so it's you know I don't want to do
  • 00:27:40
    that again anytime soon no no yeah I
  • 00:27:42
    don't blame you that's a lot that's a
  • 00:27:44
    lot to I'll do when I'll sudden to build
  • 00:27:45
    a hairy yeah thanks
  • 00:27:48
    bud yeah uh well what uh I guess just to
  • 00:27:53
    like wrap like what advice would you
  • 00:27:55
    give someone who wants to put lot of
  • 00:27:58
    miles on a vehicle honestly I know I'm
  • 00:28:01
    sounding like a bit of an infomercial
  • 00:28:03
    but bypass oil filter would be number
  • 00:28:06
    one yeah number one and I encourage you
  • 00:28:09
    to research about it the insane diesel
  • 00:28:12
    bypass filter I researched them when I
  • 00:28:14
    was trying to figure out and from all
  • 00:28:16
    the other ones out there I mean it
  • 00:28:17
    filters down to one micron which is 10
  • 00:28:19
    times smaller than a strain of hair yeah
  • 00:28:22
    10 times there's other ones out there
  • 00:28:24
    now that filter to two or three microns
  • 00:28:26
    which is good that's not bad
  • 00:28:28
    but why would you want not bad why
  • 00:28:30
    wouldn't you want fantastic fantastic
  • 00:28:32
    yeah you know so that's the number one
  • 00:28:35
    thing and then never neglect all your
  • 00:28:36
    other filters and changing your fluids
  • 00:28:39
    that's the biggest thing other than your
  • 00:28:41
    driving habits you know don't don't
  • 00:28:42
    drive it like a race car right um and I
  • 00:28:45
    would highly anybody who buys a diesel
  • 00:28:47
    well nowadays anybody who buys a diesel
  • 00:28:49
    I hope they they're not I mean people
  • 00:28:52
    are going to do what they're going to do
  • 00:28:53
    but like if I wasn't doing what I'm
  • 00:28:55
    doing I wouldn't have a diesel truck
  • 00:28:57
    right you know it's what an extra
  • 00:28:59
    $220,000 and all this extra maintenance
  • 00:29:01
    right but there's people that I know
  • 00:29:03
    that buy these trucks that get rid of
  • 00:29:04
    them every two years three years I'm
  • 00:29:05
    like I don't understand that why yeah I
  • 00:29:08
    don't understand that but hopefully
  • 00:29:09
    people that watch your channel for the
  • 00:29:11
    maintenance aspect of all this stuff
  • 00:29:13
    they they know that you know you're
  • 00:29:15
    making this investment you want it to
  • 00:29:17
    last and last and last like right I you
  • 00:29:19
    know I'm I'm going to run this truck
  • 00:29:21
    until it's until you know if I have
  • 00:29:24
    holes in the floor you know I'm stopping
  • 00:29:26
    like Fred Flintstone you know I'm going
  • 00:29:27
    to into the ground I'm going now I'm
  • 00:29:30
    going for 2 million miles that's my
  • 00:29:32
    that's my next uh 2 million miles
  • 00:29:35
    without change in the motor I'm hoping
  • 00:29:37
    you know you know I'd love to get to
  • 00:29:39
    that yeah um no that's awesome well
  • 00:29:41
    there's something else you said to me
  • 00:29:42
    too I think when we were talking like on
  • 00:29:44
    the phone a while ago um where you felt
  • 00:29:47
    like too if like people if you're going
  • 00:29:49
    to buy a diesel you got to run it yes
  • 00:29:52
    like if it's going to sit that's you
  • 00:29:54
    know missions or no like if it's if it's
  • 00:29:57
    if it's sitting it's bad for it yep no
  • 00:29:59
    these things want to be they want to be
  • 00:30:01
    run so I quick little story my first
  • 00:30:04
    diesel truck was a 20036 l F450 okay and
  • 00:30:08
    I used it to plow with and I used it to
  • 00:30:10
    haul landscape supplies when the as we
  • 00:30:12
    talked about before when the landscape
  • 00:30:15
    supply hauling job kind of went by the
  • 00:30:18
    wayside I that truck would sit in the
  • 00:30:22
    summer M and then I would use in the
  • 00:30:24
    winter but I had to do tons of repairs
  • 00:30:26
    all the time right mainly in the fall or
  • 00:30:30
    you know and I've come to realize since
  • 00:30:32
    I've owned some f that truck and some
  • 00:30:35
    others and the this truck
  • 00:30:38
    and if I keep using it it's fine I mean
  • 00:30:41
    this normal maintenance stuff of course
  • 00:30:43
    right but it wants to be used every day
  • 00:30:46
    it doesn't want like it doesn't want to
  • 00:30:47
    be you know you know I'm going to get
  • 00:30:49
    out start it drive to work three miles
  • 00:30:51
    away and then come home and park it
  • 00:30:54
    there not going to want 15 20 30 50
  • 00:30:56
    miles a week right you know it wants to
  • 00:30:59
    go it wants to go and I I really think
  • 00:31:02
    that thanks for reminding me about that
  • 00:31:04
    that's a huge that's another huge thing
  • 00:31:07
    the oil
  • 00:31:08
    filtration uh the oil analysis I mean uh
  • 00:31:12
    the the good fuel and fuel additives um
  • 00:31:16
    uh driving and driving go go go and Lord
  • 00:31:19
    knows I do that yeah um no you do plenty
  • 00:31:22
    of that I mean and I completely agree I
  • 00:31:25
    think that like actually driving your
  • 00:31:27
    vehicle and honestly feel like it's like
  • 00:31:29
    even outside of diesels too like gas
  • 00:31:32
    like combustion engines they want to get
  • 00:31:34
    up to temperature and be run there and
  • 00:31:36
    the longer you keep them there the
  • 00:31:38
    better it is I mean I you know my truck
  • 00:31:41
    I found when I was hauling running you
  • 00:31:43
    know 4,000 miles a week the thing was
  • 00:31:46
    happy as a clam like it loved it and it
  • 00:31:49
    just just wants to go it just wants to
  • 00:31:51
    run so yeah you do the maintenance it's
  • 00:31:53
    like they'll go you've seen that but 2
  • 00:31:57
    million miles would be that would be
  • 00:31:59
    remarkable out of one of these things
  • 00:32:01
    here's another good thing too that so
  • 00:32:03
    Lake speed and Dave's just did uh some
  • 00:32:06
    testing on some oil did some oil testing
  • 00:32:10
    on the start and go Theory like Dave's
  • 00:32:15
    been pushing not to idle your truck you
  • 00:32:18
    start it and go right and everybody all
  • 00:32:22
    all all everything conventional tells no
  • 00:32:25
    let it warm up for a few minutes and
  • 00:32:26
    then go right so the I'm I'm not
  • 00:32:29
    breaking any news here because it was on
  • 00:32:30
    Instagram but 42% more efficient the oil
  • 00:32:34
    is 42% better by starting and just going
  • 00:32:38
    than letting it idle interesting yeah
  • 00:32:40
    there's way more fuel delusion and what
  • 00:32:43
    are your thoughts though on like cuz I
  • 00:32:44
    know Ford says like if it's below zero
  • 00:32:48
    specifically they're like you should at
  • 00:32:49
    least idle for a few minutes cuz that's
  • 00:32:53
    I I think maybe that was what was missed
  • 00:32:54
    in that video was like obviously like
  • 00:32:57
    you know when I was hauling too like I'd
  • 00:32:59
    start the truck and pretty much St and
  • 00:33:01
    go but like if it was cold and it went
  • 00:33:03
    to high idle I would always wait until
  • 00:33:05
    the RPMs like smoothed out you know like
  • 00:33:07
    I'd give it like 5 minutes and then go I
  • 00:33:09
    don't know cuz I mean that's the like
  • 00:33:11
    listening to that stuff it's the first
  • 00:33:14
    I've heard of that right like the whole
  • 00:33:16
    you should just start it up and like
  • 00:33:17
    immediately cuz I've never done that no
  • 00:33:19
    I haven't either I did it today just cuz
  • 00:33:22
    I found you know I was talking about it
  • 00:33:23
    with somebody yesterday yeah and um I
  • 00:33:25
    was like oh let's try it and it was you
  • 00:33:26
    know 5° in Utah when I was there this
  • 00:33:28
    morning you just fired it up and yeah
  • 00:33:31
    and uh I was uh I just fired it up and I
  • 00:33:34
    just got my stuff together in the truck
  • 00:33:35
    you know maybe 2 minutes okay 3 minutes
  • 00:33:38
    and but you let it but you let it at
  • 00:33:39
    least sit for like a few minutes too I
  • 00:33:41
    mean I don't know I guess that's uh it
  • 00:33:43
    wasn't purposeful it was just getting
  • 00:33:46
    situated right right no and I feel like
  • 00:33:48
    that's fun I I I personally think I like
  • 00:33:51
    to give my truck a couple minutes while
  • 00:33:53
    I'm getting situated but like I'm not
  • 00:33:55
    letting it sit for 10 or 15 you know
  • 00:33:57
    what I mean even when it's cold like it
  • 00:33:58
    was
  • 00:34:00
    -5 here a few weeks ago and you know I
  • 00:34:04
    started up but definitely no more than
  • 00:34:07
    10 I don't know it's always plug it in
  • 00:34:09
    too plug it in I always plug it in if
  • 00:34:12
    it's be if I'm let me qualify that if
  • 00:34:15
    I'm somewhere where I have an outlet
  • 00:34:17
    okay I will always plug it in unless
  • 00:34:19
    it's in a garage okay always even if
  • 00:34:22
    it's okay in the summer of course I
  • 00:34:23
    don't but the fall and winter early
  • 00:34:26
    spring yeah late winter early spring
  • 00:34:28
    always plug it in if it's like below 40
  • 00:34:31
    okay and I think that helps a lot too
  • 00:34:33
    the oil just gets moving through there a
  • 00:34:34
    little quicker start up yeah yeah it's
  • 00:34:36
    already a little bit little bit warmer
  • 00:34:38
    yeah okay well that's good to know yeah
  • 00:34:41
    that and uh a couple other things I
  • 00:34:42
    forgot real quick yeah yeah it had the
  • 00:34:44
    original starter on it too um wow and so
  • 00:34:48
    but I when I did the redid the upper oil
  • 00:34:51
    pan like we talked about so that was you
  • 00:34:53
    know almost 800,000 miles right maybe a
  • 00:34:56
    little over 800 when I redid that so
  • 00:34:58
    that had the original starter until then
  • 00:35:00
    so I didn't know if that was important
  • 00:35:02
    for people cuz that's a pretty big wear
  • 00:35:03
    at no that's a starter is definitely a
  • 00:35:04
    wear ATM what about like your alternator
  • 00:35:06
    alternator um one went a few years ago
  • 00:35:09
    and I just had him replace both okay so
  • 00:35:12
    so the Dual alternator set up on yours
  • 00:35:14
    yeah but those those are not original
  • 00:35:16
    but they so you've done three
  • 00:35:18
    alternators total in uh no just
  • 00:35:22
    two oh okay got cuz they were original
  • 00:35:26
    one went oh and then they
  • 00:35:28
    I replaced them both both at the same
  • 00:35:30
    time okay because they had all the stuff
  • 00:35:32
    out so that's so it was really no labor
  • 00:35:34
    just a just so I was like might as well
  • 00:35:37
    well we're in there instead of that one
  • 00:35:39
    going the next week and then have all
  • 00:35:40
    that labor to take everything out again
  • 00:35:42
    right you know that's another thing I
  • 00:35:43
    try to do is try to maximize yeah try to
  • 00:35:47
    maximize
  • 00:35:48
    like Bob my service adviser at groni
  • 00:35:52
    he'll he knows now I don't even have to
  • 00:35:54
    say it anymore if they're doing
  • 00:35:55
    something is like oh we're taking this
  • 00:35:57
    this and this off you might want to
  • 00:35:58
    consider changing this cuz he knows I'm
  • 00:36:00
    going to ask that when he says right I'm
  • 00:36:02
    doing this and I'm going to say well
  • 00:36:04
    what else are you taking off what can we
  • 00:36:05
    get at right and then while you're in
  • 00:36:07
    there yes because because he'll tell me
  • 00:36:10
    that okay if we don't do it this will be
  • 00:36:13
    a 5our job right but all the Labor's
  • 00:36:16
    done so if we do it it's just the price
  • 00:36:18
    of the park right so you know mean to me
  • 00:36:21
    that's just makes complete common sense
  • 00:36:24
    to to do that what about power steering
  • 00:36:27
    like never done anything with it have
  • 00:36:29
    you ever placed the fluid or just no wow
  • 00:36:34
    that's crazy so the original power
  • 00:36:36
    steering pump and steering wreck yeah
  • 00:36:38
    that's the only thing that they changed
  • 00:36:40
    on the power steering once was what
  • 00:36:42
    there's a I don't know what the I
  • 00:36:43
    apologize for not knowing but there's a
  • 00:36:46
    piece on the steering column that they
  • 00:36:49
    adjust sometimes when they do the
  • 00:36:51
    alignment okay there's a piece for the
  • 00:36:53
    inside here somewhere yeah yeah inside
  • 00:36:54
    the steering box that part's been
  • 00:36:56
    replaced okay but the fluid no um to be
  • 00:37:00
    honest the brake fluid I don't even know
  • 00:37:02
    if that's been replaced if they do that
  • 00:37:03
    when they do brakes then yes it has if
  • 00:37:04
    they don't then no it hasn't but it's
  • 00:37:06
    never leaked um I did transmission lines
  • 00:37:10
    when I did the transmission didn't have
  • 00:37:11
    to they were fine but I was like might
  • 00:37:13
    as well got twoyear warranty so and
  • 00:37:16
    they're in there and it wasn't it was no
  • 00:37:18
    extra labor cuz they were all coming out
  • 00:37:19
    anyway right cuz all this stuff was
  • 00:37:21
    coming out and same with the the
  • 00:37:23
    secondary so I wanted to replace the
  • 00:37:26
    radiator because I wanted it to run
  • 00:37:27
    cooler right and I said why don't we
  • 00:37:29
    just do the
  • 00:37:30
    secondary and the condenser as well well
  • 00:37:34
    cuz it's all coming out so it's just the
  • 00:37:35
    price of the par to put it back in and
  • 00:37:37
    they'll be fresh everything would be
  • 00:37:38
    fresh and it can run as cool as possible
  • 00:37:40
    and right you know good to go yeah but
  • 00:37:45
    serpentine belt do you place that
  • 00:37:47
    regularly or not regularly when they
  • 00:37:49
    tell me it needs it and I think I've
  • 00:37:51
    only done it once maybe twice twice in
  • 00:37:55
    900 and I did the um I did the oil the
  • 00:37:59
    water pump I did last year sometime so
  • 00:38:04
    that was still good right but they when
  • 00:38:07
    they replaced the the engine I put a new
  • 00:38:10
    one of those on okay I think I no I
  • 00:38:13
    think it came with one okay it came with
  • 00:38:15
    one so I took my one that was fairly new
  • 00:38:19
    yeah and so I have that in my garage so
  • 00:38:21
    if this one goes I have a canace it's
  • 00:38:23
    only got I say only because it has so
  • 00:38:25
    many miles I'll say it's only got 70,000
  • 00:38:28
    Mi on it yeah you know and that was the
  • 00:38:30
    first one of those I did I never did
  • 00:38:32
    that before and that was you know 700
  • 00:38:34
    something th000
  • 00:38:35
    miles man that is crazy well hey thank
  • 00:38:38
    you so much for your time Derek I really
  • 00:38:41
    appreciate it and thank you for sharing
  • 00:38:43
    this I mean this is super impressive
  • 00:38:45
    it's amazing just doing basic
  • 00:38:46
    maintenance you know how many miles you
  • 00:38:49
    can get out of one of these things but
  • 00:38:51
    um yeah I appreciate you stopping by and
  • 00:38:54
    doing the video and stok to see how this
  • 00:38:56
    thing's going and hopefully getting to
  • 00:38:58
    the 2 million mile mark on this truck
  • 00:39:00
    will that be great we'll get there so
  • 00:39:03
    anyway for you the viewer thank you for
  • 00:39:06
    watching and uh if you have any
  • 00:39:08
    questions definitely drop them below and
  • 00:39:11
    the two of us will try to get back to in
  • 00:39:13
    a timely fashion thank you very much
  • 00:39:15
    this is Power Stroke maintenance we'll
  • 00:39:16
    see you next time
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