my "sometimes" project 2018 2500HD DMAX
 

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Hey brother! No longer in SD, retired from the Navy:D:devil::angel:

Live in Vegas now, Cali's cost of living just too damn high. Looking like a large travel trailer for our boys Baseball and BMX dreams!

What's been going on with you?

Me like! My first diesel ever, WTF. She's going to hit 1,000 miles today on the odometer, oil/filter tomorrow! Been babying the $hit out of this one. Going to start a little more aggressive driving regimen once the new oil is in there!

Congrats on retirement!
I can relate to your new lifestyle, my FOUR boys have me running wild with all the sports and activities also. I got off AD in 2011, moved back to MN. If you ever bring the rig and trailer to the great north give me a shout!

Thank you Thank you! Will do brother!

OK first oil/filter change is in the books, thanks for all the advices, 1,002 miles on the odometer, 1x Mobil 1 oil filter(Walmart), 10x quarts Rotella T4 15w40(Sams Club). The factory oil filter was indeed on there tight! lol, I used two types of oil filter wrenches, at the same time, in the hopes of putting more torque to it...….it was not budging by hand or by using only one wrench:

Here's the combo I used:

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once I had both wrenches on there at the same time and applied 2 types of force, the AC Delco yielded! I used aluminum foil to keep the oil off all the metal chassis bits and randomly checked bolts for tightness.

Some observations: 1. after 1k miles the factory fill oil looked and smelled very good; am I the only one that smells their motor oil? Also had a green tint to it. 2. My long corrugated oil funnel worked just fine but I may go ahead and invest in an offset one just so I'm not so close to the underside of the hood next time. 3. I wasn't really able to pre-fill my oil filter with oil (which I'm used to doing) so that was something a little different/no oil pressure issues noted. 4. Oil dipstick shows oil exactly at the halfway point with the 10 quart fill.

So that's about it, next scheduled oil/filter change 3k! same/same

I vote that you put a Banana pan on it.`I want to put one on mine.