Kevin Rutherford

you feel vibrations necessarily. as the damper fails it stops absorbing torsional vibrations. i replaced mine,i don't think it was bad,but its done, and wasn't that expensive.

https://www.thetruckersreport.com/t...h-damper-on-drained-the-old-stock-one.313434/

 

He already does...

 

I think he's OK I guess, good to listen to when he's not going on about diet crap. But that's about the end of it - You have to put everything thru a filter and understand that KR is not god, he does not know every answer, he's really really good at making complicated topics easy to understand and he tends to be pretty entertaining. I do understand that he's been there, done that in the trucking business. Now he's using that experience to push on into new areas. I like the things he's had to say about automation in the trucking business - mainly that finding a niche to run is the way of the future. I believe he's also said the mega-bad fleets (CRE, CRST, PRIME, SWIFT) will fire every single (human) driver the same day robotic driverless trucks become 100% legal.

I do not like the SpeedGage software his business interests sell to companies. It is frequently wrong.

 

Tracked over 2 years, the foam filter has shown a .3 mpg increase, and a couple of paper replacements.

The FS filtration system has saved thousands - if the oil samples clean at 15,000 - why dump it?

The scan gauge I've found useful for codes, learning to keep my foot out of it, and it relieves boredom.

Profit gauges is great for spreadsheet inept dummies like me, tracking maintenance and fuel expenses, and setting goals to raise my profit. The CPA loves it too.

And my recommendations stop about there.

Take the useful parts if they apply to you, and skip the rest. Easy.

 

Because the oil impurities also find their way into other areas to form deposits. Change the oil is the solution. No big deal.

Funny how even the smaller carriers and many many owner operators don't and will not use bypass oil filtration.

Half of trucking is watching out for the medicine show salesman that will always have the snake oil for sale lol.

 

Any data to support this claim?

 

Change the oil - no big deal?

$250 per oil change - at 12,000 miles.

10 changes per year, 120,000 total miles = $2,500. 15-20 hours down time.

Or,

Sample at 10,000 intervals (for me - $10, so $120), and change accordingly (for me, twice), at a cost of (for me, do it myself $400) -

$2,500 - $400 - $120(samples) = $1,980 savings/year.

$1,980/year, for the last 2 years - NO BIG DEAL?

You obviously hate Kevin Rutherford's deal. That's fine. I have little opinion either way. He pushes OPS - I researched on the topic and settled on FS (that's Filtration Solutions out of KC, though you probably already know that) , because the filters are cheaper, and it doesn't involve a water evaporating element ( my oil runs 230 degrees plus ) - and it was cheaper.

BTW, they have many testimonies from single owners to small fleets that figured out they were wasting good oil.

If you haven't paid much attention, you will have missed the details that indicate why big oil IS big oil - it's because we're stupid and uninformed. Oil is oil, it simply gets contaminated.

Any GM or Ford dealership will be glad to see you in the door for a service at 5,000 mile intervals, none would suggest an oil sample.

MORE IMPORTANTLY

A friend lost his motor recently. Upon tear down - it was obvious that sampling would have been sending red flags well in advance. Long story, but it's fixed now at $20k + and 4 weeks down time cost to him. He's ordering a bypass filtration system now.

Samples alerted me to a bearing roll in in good time. Aside from my settlement email - it's my most looked forward to email of the month.

Thanks to @Scott72 for questioning some reasoning behind your baseless, misleading, uninformed and potentially damaging off hand use of your typing digits.

Half of trucking is not looking out for the snake oil salesman - half of trucking is avoiding uninformed fools spouting rhetoric or regurgitated tales without any evidence. Sit at the lunch counter and listen- you'll get your fill.

 

I like changing the oil. I like when I pull the dipstick and the oil looks clean. Besides don't the additives get depleted after time and the viscosity lowers

 

I agree, pm service is not only oil change, there are other things they check, which I am too lazy to do myself. You can't go wrong with fresh oil every 15k miles. I can afford it. In the scope of all the maintenance costs it is the one that I mind the least. All these other things like air tabs, side skirts,rear fairing, and...what else? I am not a big believer of. In some laboratory settings they may have some data to claim their usefulness but in practice weight, speed and wind direction are the gods of the MPG. I am thinking of dismounting the stupid side skirts and mount some tool boxes and spare tire holder underneath the trailer. This is much a better investment.