5280tunage
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First, the video. I know this guy and his shop are highly regarded in the Ford automotive world, but something just feels off here.
https://youtu.be/eHPSgqipk-E
For the last three vehicles including this one, I've been very, very stringent on maintaining my oil change intervals, based on the ECU intelligent oil change platforms. I've never had issues in the past, and I've always used premium oils and oil filters, so I'm a little bit hesitant to think that it has to be 5,000 or fewer miles. These systems are supposed to be intelligent enough to take into account driving behaviors, wear and tear, and stress on the engine and components.
But I really am interested also in part of what this guy says, around the oil pickup filters for the turbos. Has anyone in this forum gone through the process of replacing those filters on their own? To me, this seems like something that realistically needs to be part of regular maintenance, maybe every 50,000 miles or so? Obviously this video doesn't go into how difficult it is to change those filters while the turbos are still installed in the vehicle, but I'd be curious. Seems to me like a pretty cheap fix if you can get to these and actually get them out without breaking something else. I'm fairly mechanically inclined, so I'm pretty sure I could do it, I'm just not really sure how easy these are to get to. Haven't even looked to be honest. Is this the kind of thing that during an oil change you could easily pop off both of these pick up units, pull the pipe a little bit out of the way and replace the filters?
If that's the case, I'm more than happy to buy a couple of sets of these just to have them around. I will say that every time I've changed the oil in this vehicle, I've never actually captured nearly as much as I expected, but I've also never had any major sludge issues either.
https://youtu.be/eHPSgqipk-E
For the last three vehicles including this one, I've been very, very stringent on maintaining my oil change intervals, based on the ECU intelligent oil change platforms. I've never had issues in the past, and I've always used premium oils and oil filters, so I'm a little bit hesitant to think that it has to be 5,000 or fewer miles. These systems are supposed to be intelligent enough to take into account driving behaviors, wear and tear, and stress on the engine and components.
But I really am interested also in part of what this guy says, around the oil pickup filters for the turbos. Has anyone in this forum gone through the process of replacing those filters on their own? To me, this seems like something that realistically needs to be part of regular maintenance, maybe every 50,000 miles or so? Obviously this video doesn't go into how difficult it is to change those filters while the turbos are still installed in the vehicle, but I'd be curious. Seems to me like a pretty cheap fix if you can get to these and actually get them out without breaking something else. I'm fairly mechanically inclined, so I'm pretty sure I could do it, I'm just not really sure how easy these are to get to. Haven't even looked to be honest. Is this the kind of thing that during an oil change you could easily pop off both of these pick up units, pull the pipe a little bit out of the way and replace the filters?
If that's the case, I'm more than happy to buy a couple of sets of these just to have them around. I will say that every time I've changed the oil in this vehicle, I've never actually captured nearly as much as I expected, but I've also never had any major sludge issues either.