How Diesels Handle Oil Compared to Gas

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[00:00:00]I'm going to pick your pick your brain a little bit. All right, 6,700 miles.

[00:00:03]How's the miles?

[00:00:04]Yeah, I do mine 8,500. But if you're not putting that many miles on it, you probably need to do 8,500 because 10,000 may be 7 or 8, 10 months. And but oil don't go bad. Oil does not lose viscosity.

[00:00:17]>> is that diesels they can stay a little longer. I don't know. You tell me.

[00:00:21]>> Yeah, I mean, you know, if that was a gas motor, you're doing 3,500 miles, 5,000 tops. I mean, 8,500 is three times what a gas motor would be. So >> is a one owner. Do you know what kind of oil they run? No, but it's going to be a 1040 or 1540 probably on the Fords. The the Dodges run a thinner oil, but the Fords is a 1540 diesel oil. Mechanical maintenance is going to be oil pan gaskets. These things they're eventually going to leak. Lower oil pan is a $30, 30-minute fix. Upper oil pans, 1,300, two-day job. That disaster kit is is not terribly expensive and and it does it'll save you a lot of money if it happens because what that does is just puts a filter in line so that if the CP4 goes out, all that don't go into the injection system.