Taking the plunge. My journey as an O/O.

I understand, I meant the actual costs of PM

 

It won't get hot enough. A household oven is capable of what? 500 degrees? 550? That might be hot enough to evaporate oil and fuel but soot needs to reach 1200 degrees to oxidize and be blown out.

 

My costs have always been very low in the maintenance department. Well that is once i figured out that listening to the old man and getting under it every weekend was a cost saver.

Sure some years will have spikes when the big ticket items come due but even then it averages out to a pretty low cpm over 10 years. Tires are my biggest costs. A set of premium drives is darn near 3500 $. That's more than it cost me to inframe my engine. Thankfully I'm able to get over 500k miles out of my drives and right at 200k on the steers because I'm getting under it keeping everything lubed up and able to see anything that will lead to premature wear before the premature wear sets in.

I can not stress enough how much getting under the truck and greasing it every single weekend will drastically lower the operating cost of a truck. Something as simple as catching a shock absorber just as it starts leaking cost 50 to 75 bucks and its easily changed out with a battery operated impact or a small air impact ran off the truck. Can do it right in a parking lot no problem. But if you aren't under it regularly you will never see it start to leak and irregular wear will set in your tires cutting their life in half. That 50$ shock replacement just added 450 bucks to your tire cost.

 

I don’t know the temp on cleaning cycle, but it’s considerably higher than the max setting on the oven.

 

My HotPoint kitchen oven goes up to 3,000 degrees, doesn’t everyone’s?

 

I didn't know either. I googled dpf baking and got a bunch of hits from different shops, dealers, and reman businesses claiming theirs was the best with lots of info on what temps and procedures are done.

 

I was told they get soaked in a acid type cleaner solution. By the FL dealer in vegas.

 

From what i was reading that's just one of many things that take place.

 

Ok so 880 won’t do it. Too bad