New to the forum, but have had my ecodiesel for almost two years. It's a 2015 lone star 4x4. I bought it with 35,000 miles on it and at 47,000 it

[Ethan Morris]

New to the forum, but have had my ecodiesel for almost two years. It's a 2015 lone star 4x4. I bought it with 35,000 miles on it and at 47,000 it spun a bearing resulting in a complete new motor being put in. I now have almost 30k on the new engine and had GDE hot tune installed before I ran my first tank of fuel through the new one. I'm hoping to make this one last for a long time. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. I will be fully deleting before too long as well.

 

[BoostN]

Welcome to the forum! At least you had a warranty to take care of the first motor.

 

[cs in Alabama]

you did that hot tune and that is the best thing you can do. You likely do good oil changes with 5w40 synthetic so I think you are set to run it for years and years. I did the hot tune as well and keeping that soot out of the oil is the most important thing. I think that FCA needs to change the oil change frequency to every 5000 miles or find a way to filter the oil much better to keep that gunk off the bottom of the engine.

I think the best thing you can do it use if the right way. Lots of highway miles and not a life of stop / start driving.

 

[Ethan Morris]

Yes I've been using T6 rotella. Trying to do everything right on this one. I love the truck, but still have that scared feeling that it could happen again.