How regularly do you guys do a b service and oil change on your trucks? I have been doing every 30, 000 miles, i am wondering if this is overdoing it or not because it turns out my company does their trucks at around 80,000 miles. I am just wondering whats the most optimal mile range to get it done.
B service?
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Maybe help some of us who don’t know what all a “b” service includes
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Companies do longer intervals because they get rid of the trucks every 5 years for the most part
mine gets filters and oil at 15k and greased once a month, oil and grease is cheap, replacing parts are not as well as cuts Into my beer drinking timeInTooDeep, Dave_in_AZ, Mountaintrucker4302 and 8 others Thank this. -
What’s your manual say? I’d start there and test your oil at the recommended interval and adjust from there. No sense in dumping out good oil. I do filters at 20k and oil / filters at 40k. I could probably push mine out a little more but that’s what I’ve settled on.
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GET A BYPASS FILTER
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GET AN OIL ANALYSIS EVERY 15K.
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What's a "B service"?
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Service A & B are probably terms used by the OP’s company. If you want the full-blown maintenance, find the maintenance manuals for your truck make/model and your engine. Get ready because that list is exhaustive at least for the Freightliner Cascadia.
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I do oil change and filter change every 12k. As well as grease truck and trailer every couple weeks.
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I go by the "heavy duty" interval in the manual. If you look closely at who that includes, it's probably the majority of trucks.
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