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My truck see's relatively light use. I haul a camper in the summer and once in a while a vehicle or materials on a trailer. I park it all winter when snow flies and road salt starts getting laid down. I will heat it up and run it up and down the non salted side roads here twice a winter. Just...

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For what it is worth I removed the bypass filter. So is the OEM aluminum engine filter mount drilled and threaded for where this was hooked up from the factory? I was wondering that. Here is where it was mounted. I am not sure why the pics won't display. I tried a different method. The tap...

When a person cuts open a filter on a video and shows the issues, I tend to believe that. But yes opinions are everywhere. LOL I am basing my feelings not on the filter brand hanging there, but on the increased areas of potential failure and a leak. Getting stuck on the side of the road stinks...

I totally get it. I just hit 60 and now I have to size up things like a trans rebuild etc. Takes me a day or three to dive in. I'd rather be sitting next to a river holding down a chair trying my best to decide when to put the next log on the fire...LOL

Maybe your message was intended for the original poster. If not.... I do all my own work. No shop will touch my truck. Granted I had the drivers side repainted and I wished I had done it myself. Places like Oregon fuel injection rebuilt a VP44 for me. That is about the extent of subbing out...

My 01 quad cab is still running like a champ. I moved across the state and pulled load after load 4 hours each way. Not one hiccup. It was the dirty battery cables for sure. I hope truck owners with this problem can spot this info and not spend what I did chasing the dead pedal or hesitation...

Grumpy it was gasoline. For the rest of you guys, I have definitely learned a lot from all of you over the years. That is for sure.

I appreciate the feedback. I think I am going to remove it. The one thing that always caught my eye was the short 1/8 nipple threaded into the filter housing. The installer either drilled the hole off center or bent the nipple to clear the pipe above it. It just looks like a vibration failure...

I would not expect anyone to remember my 4 year dead pedal problem. That turned out to be dirty battery cables. But trying to figure out the random cause of my dead pedal, I had replaced the VP44 injection pump with an OFI tuner ready pump. I was pretty worried about damaging it with the gas. I...

Thats a lot of miles you have clocked. My oil had 1500 miles on it. It was much dirtier than I would have expected. I don't know if it had gas dilution, but the level was high. It always seems to be black as night at the normal interval of 4k ish miles. I just did my first oil analysis on the...

It was closed as it was just getting dark. I was two plus miles away when I broke down. And it took about 15 minutes troubleshooting with a flashlight to know what happened. At that point I was most concerned with how to get home.

I just finished my recovery from 21 gallons of gas getting put in my diesel truck while out of town this weekend. I did an oil and filter change today and while replacing my wix bypass filter I started wondering if I should remove it. Micro filtering a bit of oil is not that important to me. I...

I went to walmart for my oil today. Mobil delvac extreme in 15w40. 3 one gallon jugs of it. Selections are getting scarce when you go by the oil articles found here at the TDR site. About the SN rating being a reduced anti wear package. More and more oils are sporting that rating. I saw mopar...

Yes it was Astro 1703 S Canyon Rd, Ellensburg, WA Yellow building on the west side of the road right at I-90. Across from Chevron. I have always used the far northwestern pump. I am not going back there again. Thank you Chief. Years ago my ole best friend from 7th grade (I am 60 YO) brought...