Just keep in mind with extended drain internals that you're keeping metals floating around in your engine longer and the amount of metals in your engine continues to increase the longer you extend the drain. You don't even need to spend the money on synthetic in order to extend your drains either. Blackstone told me the only place they see synthetic out perform conventional oil in under extreme temps, both hot and cold. On today's engines, specially a Cummins, an oil bypass should be mandatory as another layer of protection against soot build up but it does little to help with extended drains. I change my oil every 15,000 miles. I just don't see much benefit to extending the drain and a lot of benefits of getting that dirty oil out of my engine.
Extended Oil Change Intervals, who's doing them?
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Helps tremendously. But everyone on this let’s run oil until it is so saturated with crap. I run 25k to 30k max oil changes on my Detroit’s samples are clean and inside engines look great. Detroit says 60k
No way in hell especially since I run 15/40
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RStewart is right on point, oil is changed when it becomes dirty and contaminated. dont change it based on miles but rather on condition of the oil. running dirty oil for extended periods equals an earlier inframe
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I use ops bypass. I was doing extended. Then decided the peace of mind of doing them more often was better. Some say I'm wasting money. I say I'm protecting my investment
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