Ok all, just did first oil change at 3600 miles and put in Rotella 15-40. Cranked it up this morning and headed out, engine seems to run smooth! I am like how is this possible? Oil is oil, anyone ever notice this?

TM

 

all i noticed was the smell.

 

I also did my first oil change on my truck this week.
It does seem to run a bit smoother. I used Delo 400.
I also broke my new filter wrench from Geno's trying to break loose the factory filter....ended up cutting the fender skirt back and getting another wrench on it from the side. What a pain.

 

It's a oil change. Thats all.

 

Just makes you feel better knowing you did a good thing for your truck. The break in oil might be a lighter grade also.

 

I just did my first oil change and I also thought the same thing...its prob like getting a new pair of shoes and thinking you can run faster

 

I also had to take the fender skirt off to get the filter off the first time I changed mine

 

I'm going to get a soft piece of rubber to rivet orver the opning to keep the road grime out of the wires there.

 

why would you cut the innner fender when you can simple remove the intake air tube going to the turbo and have all the room you want?

 

The other filter wrenchs i had on hand only work from the side. It was freezing out also and I was in a hurry.
For a minute I thouht I was going to have to drive a screwdriver through the filster to breake it loose.

 

I bought an end cap wrench and have no problem with it when I use it with a 10" extention.

"Going from below is the way to go."

 

This is what I did after 20 minutes of fowl language and trying to manuever a strap wrench in there to get it. Had to go to Wal Mart to get an endcap. Funny, I thought it was the OEM was on there really tight too! From what it looked like to me there was no oil put on the filter o-ring, and it made a lot of squeaking noise when I took it off.

Yeah, the piece of mind of knowing there is new oil in the engine probably creates a mental illusion. Nice though.

 

My truck runs smoother and faster after I give it some lovin'

This is why I wash my client's cars after I'm done working on them.

Clean cars alway seem to feel beter to drive.

Funny how we feel in the car makes all the difference even though we know nothing is different.

 

Did ya remember to grease the front driveshaft? Remember, every 5K miles you need to stick a little grease needle in dere!

 

When I did my first oil change I thought mine ran smoother also. Along with better mpg.