I vote with the manual grease gun guys there is a much better feel of how the zerk is taking grease.
Doing your own Preventive Maintenance
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by mitmaks, Apr 30, 2016.
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Definitely a +1 on own PM and repairs. It doesn't take real long and you learn things about your truck and trailer.
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My brother, Father and I do all our own maintence. Usually on weekends or if something breaks we get right on it. motor mounts, changing oil, exhaust leaks, greaseing, U-joints, Brakes and list goes on... Somethings we take to the shop as we just don't have tools for like a rear end that needs re-done or replaced. But for instance a new clutch is about 800 bucks in parts but 2500 in labor. The way we see it is we can work on it all weekend and save ourselves 2500 bucks!! pay ourselves instead of a rookie shop guy to fix it.
we have been lazy and sent a semi in to get a new water pump. 1200 bones later and were pretty sure they put the same one on with new gaskets as it failed 6 months later.
Dirty, Nasty, knuckle busting jobs sometimes but you know exaclty how the truck ticks.. what can wait and what can't wait. How to get you home while on the road.. and save yourself some money.
And we found that napa filters were costing us more than just a regular CAT filter for our 3406. Don't alway rule out a filter you think is high dollar cause its a cummins/cat/etc filter. Sometimes they still cheaper so check around for prices. -
On a related note, has any one use Detroit Diesel brand oil filters? I went into the local dealership yesterday and that's all they have now. Not sure I want to use them
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I can always find someone local with furnace that runs on oil. Also oreilly takes old oil free of charge.
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Check out www.ryderfleetproducts.com
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I just let speedco do my pm. I'm able to watch them and everything gets done including tire check and inflation, rear diff and trans fluid check and top off fluids plus 5th wheel grease for about $295 and I'm on my way in less than a hour. $314 when I get the oil sample done.
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