How often do you lube?

I personally grease my truck every 10,000 miles, although sometimes I go a little over. Yes, some joints do expel a little bit of water. I haven’t had any problems. Heck, new trucks probably don’t get greased until their oil change is due, which by today’s standards for long haul is over 50k miles.

I do my oil change and fuel filter change based on my engine manual for long haul. I haven’t had any problems. I also do not idle. I recently learned that my fuel/water separator can go much longer or until it hits the line “change filter” on the transparent case. My maintenance manual says it’s okay, and it also does not list a mileage or interval for the fuel/water separator, only for the filters on the fuel filter module.

 

every 25k

 

I’ve went as high as 20k, and found it’s sufficient. Front end parts are still good, at over 2 mil. King pins are bad now. I plan on doing oil/ grease @ 15k, from now on, since I got an OH. Also plan on replacing everything else, when I do the King Pins. From what I see, the u joints, and front end parts are most important, since they’re the parts that have the most movement. Greasing them more often, would be good PM. The rest doesn’t get much usage in OTR. I used to chang oil @ 12k, and grease every 6k. I may go to 15k, and 7500 for grease. After doing all that work.

 

Change oil and filters every 12k and grease every 6k! Trailer too. We haul a little heavy tough, always over 80000 to 114000.

 

I'll second the Lucas Red & Tacky. Good stuff for sure.

 

Thing with his operation was EVERYTHING got washed spotless enough to eat off of every weekend. Gotta get that fresh grease in there to keep the water out. The bush isn't exactly nice on trucks either. Lot of mud, dust, salt in the winter etc. Rough roads would pound grease out of the trailer cam tubes since the trailers were all solid mount walking beams.

I'll tell ya'll though, never had a slack adjuster that couldn't be slid off the cam with 1 hand.

 

Excellent video. I'll admit up until just watching this I have been a "Grease is Grease" type of guy!!! Pretty much always grab the cheap stuff, I'll definitely be sticking with the Lucas from now on.

 

Thick is not always better. Gotta buy for the climate you run. #2 covers a typical summer range. Get up into the cold areas and #2 is just too thick to lubricate adequately. Same as trying to run a thin #1 during the summer. Thins out too much.

 

Lucas also carries a green colored grease that is much thinner than the red tacky they carry. What’s strange is that it is labeled as #2.

 

While truck every weekend. Jack the front end up to do kingpins. Milwaukee battery operated grease gun.