Loves really took a dump on SpeedCo.

I never had Sapp try to upsell Me any nonsense. Except that snake oil Lucas garbage. So it was always $219 I think for my series 60.

 

Well, maybe, but as of now there are no plans to change my oil in the driveway. I have done it a couple of times, and quite honestly, it was not worth the effort. I priced it out with what the local TA charges and it was a break even proposition dollar wise. And then I was stuck with the old oil and filters to dispose of, which required another trip to town lugging all of that oil up there, carrying it in, disposing of it, etc... Just not worth it.

 

As I understood, LF filters are Cummins own brand of filters.

 

I had my oil changed at Speedco in Effingham last week. They did a good job. Fast and no bs. They didn't smear grease on the white tray and tell me my boxes look dirty and for only 450$ they can change all three. No trying to sell that dogfart snake oil ultra thick gear oil from Indianapolis either.

 

I did my oil change for the first time on the road. My local mechanic does it in my driveway for $275. Including adjusting brake slack adjuster, full chassis lube, top all fluids, grease 5th wheel, everything. Its a 12.7 series 60.

Speedco charged me $312 and it took 25 minutes in and out. Just oil change nothing else.

 

The best set up I saw for that was at Saunders Leasing. They had a system in the corner that pulled fuel from the bulk storage tank. The waste oil was blended, heated, filtered through large sock filters and sent to the storage tank.
Ten gallons of oil in the truck fuel tanks at one time is a good bit, percentage wise. That was done a lot years back but injectors were cheap and had large ports. Some modern engines operate at over 20,000 PSI rail pressure and can inject fuel up to ten times each time a cylinder fires. Tolerances are very close and and a set of injectors installed can run over $4,000.00. I thank that can be an expensive way to save money.

 

Doubtful about the 10 times per injection cycle. Common rail injection is 60,000 or more psi.

 

People either love it or hate it. I fall into the "oil companies spend billions of dollars to improve publicity while lowering viscosity, and dumping that stuff in undoes it all" line of thinking.