Hello,
I am looking for comments, opinions and advice. Thanks in advance.
Many of you probably know I own a wrecker company and we are insane hard on our wreckers. The type of towing my company does is private property impound so my trucks run virtually 24/7 and impound from 3-5 cars per hour. In a 10hr shift one wrecker can drive 180 miles in town. My wrecker never see the highway...always in town and our average tow is 4-5 miles. We average 75-80k per year and I keep a truck until about 250k. They also spend a great deal of time idling. Basically, we are as hard on equipment as is possible.
The only trucks and engines I have found that can take the abuse day in and day out 24/7 and 365 are Ford 450s and 550s with either the PSD or the V10. (I'm currently getting rid of all of my diesels and going gas. They get better mileage, are cheaper and easier to repair and last as long and tow just as well) (I have a couple of Dodges that I'm selling left....but that's another topic)
I have my own mechanics and service department and we do all maintence in house. I use Blackstone to randomly sample trucks. It's too expensive to sample all of the time. My main focus has always been getting ever last mile out of the oil so I primarily look at TBN and soot. I have had every brand of wrecker and engine and never had a bad oil report come back ever.
My OCIs are 10k with filter. I buy filters wholesale and use Motorcraft, Fram HD (black ones for trucks) and Wix XP. 70% of time running Motorcraft and 20% the Frams and 10% wix Xp. It's just a cost and availability equation of which one of the 3 I buy. I use 15w40 Mag1 All Fleet purchased in 55 gallon drums and pumped directly into the trucks.
This report seems bad and I appreciate your opinions.
This truck ironically has been my wrecker and therefore the miles are much lower than other units as I have been the only driver until 2 months ago. I bought myself a new 450 V10. Anyways because I have driven this ironically this truck hasn't been abused like my other trucks as much (I'm still hard on it but not as hard. The last 2 months it's been in the fleet and been driven hard)
2012 F550. No Modifications / 64,274 on truck / 9,634 on this OCI and filter / No make up oil
Results---------------------------------UA
Aluminum 22 13
Chromium 7. 2
Iron. 122. 33
Copper. 8. 4
Lead / tin. 0 0/1
Moly. 38. 28
Nickel. 2. 1
Titanium. 0. 1
Potassium 1. 3
Boron. 8. 30
Silicon. 9. 7
Sodium. 5. 6
Calcium. 1101. 1688
Magnesium 746. 482
Phosphorus. 974. 1020
Zinc. 1168. 1178
Barium. 0. 1
Vis @ 210F. 69.8. 69-79
Vis @. 100c. 12.89. 12.7--15.5
Flash. 390. >415.
Fuel 2.5. Antifreeze / water 0
Insolubles .4. TBN. 2.7
Notes: Blackstone took 2 months to analyze this. No explanation why so long. Had I known this info I would have short changed the oil and reanazlized. Because Blackstone took so long to send me the report the truck was already just shy of its 10k OCI. We changed the oil and I sent another sample this past week.
Thanks for any and all help!!!
All the best...Steve
I am looking for comments, opinions and advice. Thanks in advance.
Many of you probably know I own a wrecker company and we are insane hard on our wreckers. The type of towing my company does is private property impound so my trucks run virtually 24/7 and impound from 3-5 cars per hour. In a 10hr shift one wrecker can drive 180 miles in town. My wrecker never see the highway...always in town and our average tow is 4-5 miles. We average 75-80k per year and I keep a truck until about 250k. They also spend a great deal of time idling. Basically, we are as hard on equipment as is possible.
The only trucks and engines I have found that can take the abuse day in and day out 24/7 and 365 are Ford 450s and 550s with either the PSD or the V10. (I'm currently getting rid of all of my diesels and going gas. They get better mileage, are cheaper and easier to repair and last as long and tow just as well) (I have a couple of Dodges that I'm selling left....but that's another topic)
I have my own mechanics and service department and we do all maintence in house. I use Blackstone to randomly sample trucks. It's too expensive to sample all of the time. My main focus has always been getting ever last mile out of the oil so I primarily look at TBN and soot. I have had every brand of wrecker and engine and never had a bad oil report come back ever.
My OCIs are 10k with filter. I buy filters wholesale and use Motorcraft, Fram HD (black ones for trucks) and Wix XP. 70% of time running Motorcraft and 20% the Frams and 10% wix Xp. It's just a cost and availability equation of which one of the 3 I buy. I use 15w40 Mag1 All Fleet purchased in 55 gallon drums and pumped directly into the trucks.
This report seems bad and I appreciate your opinions.
This truck ironically has been my wrecker and therefore the miles are much lower than other units as I have been the only driver until 2 months ago. I bought myself a new 450 V10. Anyways because I have driven this ironically this truck hasn't been abused like my other trucks as much (I'm still hard on it but not as hard. The last 2 months it's been in the fleet and been driven hard)
2012 F550. No Modifications / 64,274 on truck / 9,634 on this OCI and filter / No make up oil
Results---------------------------------UA
Aluminum 22 13
Chromium 7. 2
Iron. 122. 33
Copper. 8. 4
Lead / tin. 0 0/1
Moly. 38. 28
Nickel. 2. 1
Titanium. 0. 1
Potassium 1. 3
Boron. 8. 30
Silicon. 9. 7
Sodium. 5. 6
Calcium. 1101. 1688
Magnesium 746. 482
Phosphorus. 974. 1020
Zinc. 1168. 1178
Barium. 0. 1
Vis @ 210F. 69.8. 69-79
Vis @. 100c. 12.89. 12.7--15.5
Flash. 390. >415.
Fuel 2.5. Antifreeze / water 0
Insolubles .4. TBN. 2.7
Notes: Blackstone took 2 months to analyze this. No explanation why so long. Had I known this info I would have short changed the oil and reanazlized. Because Blackstone took so long to send me the report the truck was already just shy of its 10k OCI. We changed the oil and I sent another sample this past week.
Thanks for any and all help!!!
All the best...Steve