5000 miles? that's not very long....

Is this something I should have to change often..... or a diesel thing??

Sorry for my ignorance...

 

a diesel thing, I belive dont quote me, but the manual might say every 15000 miles, for diesel. I think gas you can go damn near forever. Diesel is much thicker and I was running two stroke in it for a while. Now just lucas, but for 13 minutes of work, $18.00 at napa, to keep contaminants out of my motor, I will do it.

 

Ok, that's what I thought.. thanks...

I was like, hrmm... we've had many vehicles that are gasoline driven, that have never changed the filters... haha....

You had me worried there...

Thanks for clearing that up.

 

Same here, my first diesel and jsut want to take care of it. use the power and not tear it up over being too cheap for $18.00. maazing how some people do not maintain there vehicle, I have a friend that will not put any money into his cars, then comes crying to me to work on them when it over heats or is running like crap. a little money now saves a lot in the future

 

gassers can go sometimes near 30K before the fuel filter needs to be changed. diesel is a very dirty fuel to begin with. in 5K the filter can go from a nice white to the nastiest black you can imagine. last time I changed a fuel filter on a gasser when it clogged the media was only a bit brownish.

 

I've changed mine 3 times in 16K and after seeing them with different mileage on them I now feel safe to where I think I can go 7500 miles or more on my fuel filters. No I'm not being cheap but the filters look to dam good to throw out, I guess we have too much clean of fuel in my area Of course delivering dirty fuel to farmers is a big no no so that may be why we have such clean fuel around here.

 

I rana lot of two stroke on my trip and I think that caused a lot of the build up in mine. plus I do not know when it was changed prior to me buying the truck as Dodge did not tell me.