Opinion on Oil Drain Valve

[Newsa]

If soot would actually clog a drain valve, you've got bigger things to worry about.....like those oil galleys you mentioned...

Naw. At somewhere between 30 and 50 psi, that's stronger than a gravity feed.

 

[JR]

As for after market items added on to vehicles, I have an AFE differential (larger) cover, an amsoil bypass filter, a black market wye on my upper radiator hose, sulastic shackles on my rear leaf speings, centramatic wheel balancers, cooling fins on my g56 (larger volume), and a unagoose gooseneck hitch.
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Marketing strategy works pretty well, eh?

My experience with valves is that they can get clogged with soot.

I don't have a drain valve either, but given the size of the drain hole itself I can probably safely assume a drain valve would have a hole of at least 1/8" - 3/16", possibly even larger. If a hole that large gets plugged with soot please explain how your oil pick up with a fine mesh screen doesn't plug up and starve your engine.
Your logic on common sense issues is far from common. Or logical.

 

[6V92TA]

the marriage of easy credit and marketing strategy has combined to keep most Americans working right up until they die. LOL

 

[Cummins12V98]

the marriage of easy credit and marketing strategy has combined to keep most Americans working right up until they die. LOL

Not this Cat! October will be 7 years since I quit, I'm nearly 61. It's called NOT spending everything you have.

 

[Newsa]

the marriage of easy credit and marketing strategy has combined to keep most Americans working right up until they die. LOL

Yeah, I may regret buying that max care. Everything that was going to go wrong went wrong before 3/36. I did use the max care for a car rental, though. Except for a fuel module that was only a $100 fix (ironically, the same as my deductible) which went bad 3.7 years into ownership.

I'm sure when the dpf needs replaced, it will cost alot. But since I expect the truck to last 300-500 k, I guess it's cheaper than a new car or new gasser truck.

I'm done adding things to the truck. And I installed all of these add ins myself. So it was really just the cost of the items that I paid... no labor.

WAIT! I might need to replace my cloth seats with learher! Lolzzz

 

[Dasmoeturhead]

I've used the fumoto valves for years on all of my vehicles. Never had a problem.

 

[Newsa]

Actually, all of my upgrades have been recommended by those on this forum. And I don't think any of them were paid endorsements.

 

[Newsa]

New Cummins valve.

 

[6V92TA]

New Cummins valve. View attachment 107252

if I woulda known you needed one of those new valves I would have mailed you the one I have in my toolbox

 

[Newsa]

if I woulda known you needed one of those new valves I would have mailed you the one I have in my toolbox

Everyone who has a Fumoto or Femco probably has one in their toolbox.

 

[User113]

But I will do everything in my power to keep those oil jets that spray cylinder walls, oil gallery, and oil passages from getting clogged with soot. Including installing a bypass oil filter. I would doubt that the residue on the bottom of the oil pan will get sucked up by the oil pick-up tube. But don't want to take that chance. Read the above link for my rationale.

All in all, I doubt any residue left in the oil pan will get sucked up. But even if it did, it would be filtered first.

Edit: probably a good reason to pay $5 more for the stratopore or equivalent????? Or the fleetguard full flow with the built in bypass filter that filters 2 streams at once and costs about twice what a stratopore costs?

I really love the bypass filter I put on my diesel Jeep. Haven't gotten around to putting one on my truck, but since it's an early 2004, it's not as important as it was on the Jeep CRD w/EGR. For the truck I will use the full flow with integrated bypass. I tried those on my Jeep before I installed the FS2500; the UOA results were remarkably similar. For my Cummins there are at least 3 available: MicroGreen MG430-9; Baldwin BD7317 and FleetGuard LF9028.

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I am really not liking this new forum software, I hope they didn't pay anything for it...

 

[6V92TA]

Everyone who has a Fumoto or Femco probably has one in their toolbox.

the optimists of the diesel world threw thier drain plug away when they went to the fukijima drain plug. only the pessimists still have theirs. LOL

 

[Cummins12V98]

"I am really not liking this new forum software, I hope they didn't pay anything for it..."

Maybe it won't double post!