New truck may have gotten screwed?

From what I see in the video the Blow-by is not excessive. Good- luck and enjoy your truck.

 

yeppers thats normal blowby I wouldent worry to much

 

I have a 04 KW with a C-15 cat. It is the twin turbo. I have a lot of blowby thru the crankcase tube. A very good Cat mechanic told me the newer Cat's have a lot of crankcase oil pressure and the oil will turn into a mist and some of that mist will exit thru the blowby tube.

I thought he was blowing smoke up my .... Anyway I started reading about this and found out he is exactly correct. The newer C-15 do have a lot of oil pressure and Cat even makes a blowby filter to attach to the tube to collect some of this excess oil.

Eventhough it looks like a lot coming out it is in a mist and there really isn't that much coming out. My truck will use a couple gallons of Rotella between oil changes. I switched to Mobil and it will use 1 gallon every 15,000 miles. If I go over 15,000 it will start using more. So I am very cautious to change mine on time. If I idle a lot like I'm doing now in the winter I change it closer to 12,000.

I wasn't a fan of Cat engines before this one. It does use more diesel than a Detriot or Cummins but I have had very little issues with it. It is very cold natured though.

 

looks okay to me as well, i would put a rubber hose on it, lower to the ground, will help keep the motor clean . johnny

 

Thats blow by is nothing. I drove and internation with a DT530 and my current truck with a 60 series that has 700k. You would think the truck is on fire there is so much coming out from under the truck.

 

That....looks excessive to me. JMHO

 

It is NOT excessive.