Author Topic: 3000 or 6000 mile Oil Change (Read 3330 times)

red · « **on:** January 08, 2012, 09:07:55 am »

This week Calif started asking people Not to change their Oil early

bandmiller2 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 08, 2012, 08:59:04 pm »

I can see it now getting pulled over and ticketed for having clean oil in your truck. Frank C.

tyb525 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 08, 2012, 11:15:06 pm »

In all honesty, the 3000 mile oil change was needed back in the day, but with today's more advanced synthetic/semi-synthetic oils you can easily go 6000 miles and have no problems (as long as you check you oil level, which you should regardless of how many mile you go between oil changes).

Although passing a law for it is a bit ridiculous if you ask me

Ianab · « **Reply #3 on:** January 08, 2012, 11:34:04 pm »

The other thing is how long it takes to do 6,000miles. If you only do 3,000 miles in a year, you should probably change the oil after 12 months, no matter how many miles on the clock. Might be a lot of round town, stop start driving on a cold engine, not so good for the oil.

If you do 6,000 in 3 months, that suggests a lot of open road driving on a warm engine, and it probably fine for at least 6,000miles.

Ian

thecfarm · « **Reply #4 on:** January 09, 2012, 06:55:49 am »

I'm from the old school. Yes,I know oils are better,motors too,but I still like to change at 3000. I can see why not too. Would save alot. I change the tractor we mow with at 50 hours. Gets alot of hot steady usage and high rpm too.

doctorb · « **Reply #5 on:** January 10, 2012, 07:27:48 am »

I'm from that same school. What year did you graduate?

I used to change oil every 3000 miles. I think one of the benefits of that schedule was that it was much less likely that you would ever run low on oil, just because you changed so often. My mechanic has me backed off to every 5000 miles now.

thecfarm · « **Reply #6 on:** January 10, 2012, 07:32:39 am »

10 years after you.

Norm · « **Reply #7 on:** January 10, 2012, 07:57:42 am »

I go 6 or 7k on cars or trucks, our heavy equipment I go every 250 hours or less depending on the oil that's used in it and how hard I run it.

I remember one farmer around here used the premium JD oil in his tractors and after he drained it he'd use it in his pickup. The mechanic that was telling me this said although JD has some good oil it's not that good.

ely · « **Reply #8 on:** January 10, 2012, 09:33:31 am »

i try for the 3000 mark on my stuff. i know a man who was a diesel mechanic for most of his adult life who would use the drained oil out of school buses in his own trucks and equipment... you would think he was smarter than that.

also used to work with a guy that had a 1970 something lincoln continental, that never once had the oil changed in it. about twice a year he would screw a new filter on the engine and add enough oil to get the level back up... this was in 1989... he drove that car everyday for 6 years i worked with him around 100 mile round trip. im pretty sure he drove it until 99.
if you stuck your finger down in the valve cover the sludge was like someone pumped the grease gun inside the engine.

my dad worked at a service station when he first married my mom, someplace in texas, said there was an oilman who had a filter system on his truck that had a place on it to drop in a roll of toilet paper. he would have dad change the roll twice a month and change the oil when it was called for. dad says the oil in that engine always looked brand new even when he drained it out. this was around 1958-60ish.

Larry · « **Reply #9 on:** January 10, 2012, 09:26:57 pm »

Kathy bought a new Honda CRV about 4 years ago. It has one of those electronic gizmo’s that I guess counts the engine revolutions and tells ya when its time to change. Ok, I thought we will do it since it had a 100,000 mile warranty. The gizmo tells us to change oil about every 10 or 11,000 miles which we do. Actually, according to the gizmo, we are changing about 1 to 2 thousand early.

As of today it has some 70,000 miles on it, runs like a new one, and does not use a drop of oil. Were debating on wether to keep it or trade...Kathy really likes it so we will probably keep it.

SPIKER · « **Reply #10 on:** January 10, 2012, 09:51:49 pm »

back in the day I did mine 3K as well, but now it is more like 5K or 6K usually shoot for even 5K 10 K ect makes it easier to remember as I do my own. rand into a deal at Menards for full synthetic and picked up 2 cases so last change was more like & or 8K on my Fords, was finally down to the ADD mark and I only fill them to half way up.

the POS Honda Passport (Isuzu) needs a quart with the fill up I think it goes 5K but take 3 or 4 quarts in between that mileage. My truck now leaks a bit with the aftermarket oil pan the 1st one was really rusty and getting moist so I had a new pan put on & now it leaks some at the rear main.

Mark

Chuck White · « **Reply #11 on:** January 12, 2012, 06:36:42 am »

I used to have my oil changed every 3,000 miles, then yesterday I was in for an oil change and the service attendant suggested that it wasn't really necessary.

He suggested I wait for the "Change engine oil" sign to come across the odometer. That would be around 5,000 miles, depending on driving conditions!

By the way, I had him check the oil level before he drained it and he said it was right on the full mark.

Note: I change the oil & filter in my mill every 100 hours.

bandmiller2 · « **Reply #12 on:** January 12, 2012, 07:19:22 am »

Most of us today run multiviscosity oil,the additives have a life span.If you have a real oil pressure gauge there will come a time when the oil pressure will drop slightly be it three,four,five or more thousand miles thats the time to change.Myself I do it three to four thou.Air cooled engines like used on bandmills run hot and in a dirty area,best oil is a synthetic changed often,dosen't take that much and you will add usefull life to your engine. Frank C.

Magicman · « **Reply #13 on:** January 13, 2012, 08:28:37 am »

Every 5K just makes it so easy to keep up with oil/filter changes. Of course with the Lombardini Diesel on the sawmill, it's oil/filter every 125 hours.

Ron Wenrich · « **Reply #14 on:** January 13, 2012, 11:21:23 am »

The Jetta diesel spec is every 10,000 mile. The generator at the mill gets it once a month. But, sometimes we miss that.

OneWithWood · « **Reply #15 on:** January 13, 2012, 06:32:31 pm »

I change the oil in my Ford F350, 6.0 every 7500 miles. Runs like a clock.

beenthere · « **Reply #16 on:** January 13, 2012, 08:03:16 pm »

OWW
That ticking doesn't bother you anymore?

LeeB · « **Reply #17 on:** January 14, 2012, 08:15:38 am »

that's funny.

OneWithWood · « **Reply #18 on:** January 14, 2012, 12:05:01 pm »

submarinesailor · « **Reply #19 on:** January 14, 2012, 11:18:08 pm »

Check out this link: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/15/business/la-fi-autos-oil-change-20111215

It's an LA Times article about the 3,000 mile oil change. Believe it or not I change out my oil every 20,000 miles and the filter every 10,000. Admittedly it's AMSOIL rated for 25,000 and their Ea oil filter rated for 15,000. Got 257,000 on this Super Duty diesel, so I'm doing something right.

Bruce

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