Gasket job done when do I change the oil?
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Rock Crawling
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Gasket job done when do I change the oil?
So the head gasket job is done When do I change the oil again?
So I have only slow drived arround the block with the fresh cheep oil and old hp-3001 oil filter now how long do I need to drive or run it before new filter and good oil change??
Thanks
So I have only slow drived arround the block with the fresh cheep oil and old hp-3001 oil filter now how long do I need to drive or run it before new filter and good oil change??
Thanks
Recovery Vehicle
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I would've just changed the oil with good oil and filter at the time of the head job. Why keep an old dirty filter full of old oil and introduce that to a nice new set of heads. Did someone advise to wait or something? If it was me I would've already done it.
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TReK
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After I did my head gaskets I flushed my coolant and refilled the PAS fluid. I ran the truck for about 10 minutes with the oil that was in there (2 week old mobil 1 unfortunately) and bled the power steering lines (and let the PB blaster and WD 40 burn off the exhaust manifold and engine). Then I changed the oil and filter to Autozone dino oil and a Fram filter ($25 total) and drove for about 100 miles and then did an oil change to my regular oil and filter.
Probably overkill but after spending 3 days doing that job I wanted to do it correctly.
Probably overkill but after spending 3 days doing that job I wanted to do it correctly.
Three Wheeling
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Your entitled to your opinion. That old gasket material gets everywhere so I would flush the block out before bolting everything back together and adding fresh oil and filter etc. I'm not talking about doing an ATF flush.
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Not sure why you are slow driving it and why you haven't done a proper oil change but do it Yesterday, why are you waiting.
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Ok I thought you meant an ATF flush!
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Rock Crawling
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After I got her all back to gether I drained the oil and put cheep oil in 5 qrts I left my old hp- 3001 old oil filter in and have now driven 22 miles when should I change that oil??? With my Moble one oil and hp-3001 oil filter??
I also did the coolant flush!
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Your making this way too complicated. Mike is telling you to change your oil and filter with the mobil 1 oil and hp-3001 filter. Why are you waiting?
