[kdjasper]

@Dunrollin good luck on your long trip, hope everything goes smoothly for you. It seems your dealer may have taken the time to get everything back to perfectly good working order, so hopefully that will be the case for you.

 

[kdjasper]

Thanks for the advice! This is my first diesel, so from what you are saying I will look to have my fuel filters changed out every other oil change; i.e., every 15-16k on how my driving and truck are behaving so far at ~7,600 and thinking I am going to get my first oil change in about a week, but I still have 29% oil life remaining and in my old 2010 5.4 I usually changed when the computer had me at 20% oil life remaining.

 

[kdjasper]

I know this is off topic of the intent of this thread, but I need to follow up on my previous post. Here in MN the fuel stations are mandated to serve us biodiesel blend.

Owners Manual states this for those of us running biodiesel blends...
"Every 30000 mi (48,000 km), six months or 300 engine hours, Replace the engine-mounted and frame-mounted fuel filters."

I am going to keep a more watchful eye on my engine hours, and probably have the fuel filters replaced every 300 engine hours.

 

[kdjasper]

Those EGR screws are pretty small. Does anyone think that a lost EGR screw in the engine could exit the engine during an oil change and no longer pose a risk to the engine? It's just a thought I had on this recently.

Perhaps those that have lost a screw or two have already dropped out the screw during an oil change. Or, for those that have this situation, maybe have the used oil strained to see if the screw(s) came out and if found in the used oil it would provide piece of mind that there are no longer loose screw(s) in the engine.

It may even be worth pouring in a couple gallons of oil with the oil drain plug out to try to flush out the screw(s) from the engine?

Just trying to provide some comfort or possible hope to those on @jmperlik wounded brethren spreadsheet.