Stepping Out With My Own Numbers

151,000 right now. It’s out of warranty at 200k. I could buy an extended warranty but right now I don’t have plans to.

 

I sent them my questions. Price, who and where to be installed, if a camera goes down who and where to fix it, when I trade the truck how to handle transferring it to the new one.

I was strongly considering the Puradyn system as well. I like theirs too but feel more confident in the Amsoil and I can get it done here instead of making a special trip to get the Puradyn put on.

 

Maybe. I have an event driven camera like the big fleets have in my truck but that didn’t seem to matter last time I renewed. My next renewal is in March.

 

So far, all I’ve had go wrong with it were two recalls. One was for a seatbelt bracket and one for a bracket on my height control valve.

 

They should have the bypass system on today or maybe early tomorrow. The tire shop I use in town had 4 brand new virgin XOne XDN2s and I went ahead and bought them at only 200.00 a piece. MHC had them taken off a truck they converted to duals. I’m good on drive tires for the life of the truck at a fraction of the cost now.
I’m going to get a part list they used for the bypass and post that in the A26 thread for anybody else that wants to do it. They were able to use a port on the dipstick for the return and a port near the fuel pump for a supply.

 

Bypass filter is complete. If anyone has an A26 and you want the Amsoil Heavy Duty system on it; they ran the supply from a T at the fuel pump and ran the return to a port at the base of the dipstick. The filter is mounted on the batter box behind the driver side front fender. I’ll include the fitting list below, they used Stratoflex fittings.
Im leaving tomorrow finally. I’m excited to see how it does when I get some miles on it. I test drive it today up to operating temp to make sure there were no leaks. Oil is black as usual but clear and you can read the hashes and letters on the dipstick. It’s usually opaque and black. The filter holds a gallon of oil so you’re increasing oil capacity by a gallon as well. The filter has an 1800 hour service life or 120k miles, whichever comes first.

 

I’ll be sampling it every 20k. The standard drain I’ve been doing is 50k. My motivation for this isn’t so much the extended drains but keeping the oil as clean as possible. I pay extra to test TBN and TAN. I change it when the TAN exceeds TBN. Even if your oil is clean of other things, once TAN outpaces TBN you’re creating varnish and sludge. At my current interval with no bypass, at 50k the TAN has exceeded the TBN by a point or so. Nothing to worry about but time to change it. Running this bypass, I’m not sure. I’ll do my 20k samples and just have to wait and see.