Brand New 2018 RAM Cummins found small copper pieces in oil.

[Newsa]

I can't say for sure if you're saying your normally not driving the truck enough for the truck to reach full operating temperature for the fluids and systems. I drive my 5500 ev every week anywhere from 30 to 130 miles to keep all the systems fully operational.

Maybe its excessive, but we end up taking some nice drives and now that I have an Edge CST2 I can see regens. I'm more or less creating a duty cycle to keep it running top form.

Oil analysis, I forgot to do it when I changed the oil the first time. C&Cs have a 13.5K mile oil change interval, but I'm changing at 10K miles. Got around 3K miles more to go, then will perform it.

I'll be watching this thread to see how the discussion goes.


Thanks for posting.

Happy trails, Ron

Yeah.

I live only 6 miles from work. So short trips is tough on the soot build up. I do take it on longer drives to allow it to regen. However, i think these longer drives are not long enough to do both regen and.also keep the oil hot enough to evaporate the fuel blow by from active regens.

On my long trip, there was probably some passive regenning along with some active regens. But driving for 3-4 hours after a regen is enough to evaporate the excess fuel from the oil. Whereas driving 20-30 mins after a regen would likely not be enough to pump all of the oil through the piston cooling jets in the cylinders to get the oil to the hottest parts of the engine.

On another note, i am overall happy with the oil performance when i look at the extremely low metal content. Less than 10 ppm is amazing.

 

[TJJEEPER]

Curious what the outcome is/was of this... once the conversation went off the rails the OP kinda disappeared.