Proper way to check oil level on 7.3 idi

[79jasper]

Probably. Lol I would venture to say, more to do with aeration than heat expansion.
I do have some small small leaks.
I only drive 30 miles a day now. Takes awhile to get to my OCI.
At the end, I'm barely low.

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[chillman88]

I only drive 30 miles a day now

Must be nice Lol! We have put 38,000 miles on my wife's jeep we bought in March of '16! I just did the math out of curiosity and that puts us at averaging 62mi/day so I guess that's not HORRIBLE lol!

 

[79jasper]

Yeah, not bad. That's about what my wife drives to work.
Another reason we got rid of the suburban for the edge. Lol

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[Thewespaul]

Currently doing 700-1000 miles a week in my idi, 130 mile commute every day

Y’all got it easy

 

[sjwelds]

My job's a mile and a half from my house

Are we off topic yet?

 

[79jasper]

Brian's is in his back yard lol

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[frankenwrench]

Currently doing 700-1000 miles a week in my idi, 130 mile commute every day

Y’all got it easy

Weatherford to Poolville 18 miles. Poolville to lakeworth 42 miles. Lakeworth back to Poolville same 42 miles. Poolville back to Weatherford same 18 miles. Bout 120 a day 6 days a week. That's bout 720 a week just work not including all the randome parts runs and taking kids to practice and grocery's runs. Getting pretty close to ya Thewespaul

 

[jwalterus]

Since I haven't replied to this one yet (and after all of the replies, am no longer under any obligation, moral or legal, to be truly helpful...)

Using the dipstick!!!!!

 

[towcat]

Are we off topic yet?

It wouldn't be OB if it doesn't go into the weeds. At least it doesn't go into the gutter like some others members were famously known to do. :O

 

[towcat]

Weatherford to Poolville 18 miles. Poolville to lakeworth 42 miles. Lakeworth back to Poolville same 42 miles. Poolville back to Weatherford same 18 miles. Bout 120 a day 6 days a week. That's bout 720 a week just work not including all the randome parts runs and taking kids to practice and grocery's runs. Getting pretty close to ya Thewespaul

everything I do in TX is at least 30 min to an hour one way. If I feel like having a nice weekend, that's a 2.5 hour drive to Austin.

 

[chris142]

I changed my oil last friday. I used the small filter and 2 gallons of oil. Cold its 1/4 inch below add. Warmed up and after 10 minutes of sitting its 1/4 inch above add...so 1/2 inch between cold and hot.

 

[Macrobb]

Which is why you should be adding 2 more quarts than that... 10 quarts for a change with a stock filter, 11 quarts for PSD filter.

 

[chris142]

Which is why you should be adding 2 more quarts than that... 10 quarts for a change with a stock filter, 11 quarts for PSD filter.

That just makes em burn oil

 

[Sidewinded_idi]

Man to think with my 15x30 external oil cooler, frantz bypass oil filter, and Donaldson dbl filter my last oil change took the whole 5 gallon rotella bucket

 

[FORDF250HDXLT]

Man to think with my 15x30 external oil cooler, frantz bypass oil filter, and Donaldson dbl filter my last oil change took the whole 5 gallon rotella bucket

Yeah but now what? You don't have to change it,in like a 100k miles or something silly?