Id just use the oil life monitor and change the oil at 25%.
I use Wix 57045 on those trucks. Its a taller than normal filter.

 

M1 is good for 5k-7.5k. There’s a couple different filters you could use. You could use: Fram Ultra, AC Delco OE, ChampXL, Amsoil, Royal Purple, Mobil 1

 

5-7k or twice a year, whichever comes first. Light duty cycle, you can stretch it. Heavy duty cycle, better safe than sorry.

Currently I'm using amsoil filters but I was always partial to the mobil1. Just been tough to find locally. Any of the big brands do the job really.

 

Oil is cheap. Engine rebuilds ain't. I can't be screwing around with oil analysis. That's the only true way to know.

Everybody is claiming all of this high mileage intervals and extended life oil and maintenence free cars, and all of this other horse manure they're spouting.

Nobody ever said F all about extended life oil filters, did they?

If modern oils perform better, then that means that they clean the engine better. And that means that modern oil is carrying more junk in it. Which means the filter is working harder, thereby collecting more trash.

Logic dictates that, if anything, you should change these super oils more frequently. Or at least, change your filter more often.

Personally, I don't over think it. 3k miles, it gets changed. And it looks plenty dirty every time.

I've seen inside numerous engines where the vehicle manufacturer and the oil jug both say you can go for this crazy extended interval, and the lie detector determined that both the vehicle manufacturer and the oil company are excessively full of S.

Dealership service history states this vehicle has come to this shop every X miles and gotten the recommended service religiously. The owner of the vehicle has carefully followed OEM and oil brand recommendations. The engineers have sworn that you can go this many miles, no problem.

Well if they're so smart, then why is this top end completely caked in sludge? Why is that crank turning blue gold and purple with heat caused by plugged oil passages caused by sludge created by extended intervals?

I'm not convinced by the slick marketing, but I am convinced by what I've seen inside plenty of engines.



Suit yourself. Carefully follow the owner's manual. Listen to Pennzoil or Mobil or pick your poison telling you that it's safe to go 5, 6, 8, 10k miles or whatever. I'm perfectly happy to charge you money to fix it.

>>The reader will note that my normal monotone has changed to one of bitterness and sarcasm. It angers me to see my customers getting screwed by following poor advice given by the OEM in order to boost sales.

 

Do you think things are any different in the medical pharmaceutical-agricultural industrial complexes?

That being said, I use only the recommended 0-W20, and either a Baldwin, Wix or OEM filter every 5000 miles.
I have 185K now, and Blackstone Labs says the motor is healthy.

 

i have a 2016 2500hd with the 6.0. go to bob is the oil guy forum and you'll learn more than you ever wanted to know. bottom line you are definitely safe going by the OLM and can usually get away with using the same filter for 2 oil changes.

personally i cant see bothering to crawl under the truck and not swap the filter, so i change them both on the first convenient day when the OLM gets below 10%. delco filter and the cheapest dexos 5w-30 full syn i can find, used to be supertech but lately has been quaker state high mileage.

 

lmfao. "definitely", not so.

 

silliness. the OLM is quite conservative. maybe your granddaddy's daddy's uncle's cousin's daddy told you that you had to change your oil every 3k miles while you sat on his lap as a toddler and that really stuck with you?

also, hate to be that guy but ... santa claus is fake too.

 

I change my 2014 5.3 every 3-4000 miles. It has the Afm system and keeping the oil clean supposedly helps those stupid afm lifters. It may be overkill but oil is cheaper than a big repair. I use valvoline 0w20 full synthetic and a wix filter.

 

6K...Mobil1

 

You should do an oil analysis to determine YOUR OCI. In a mechanically sound LS engine, using good oil and filter, 7500 miles is well within the range.

If you have fuel dilution or coolant in the oil, the OCI should be much less.

AC Delco PF63 or K&N1007

Mobil 5w40 FS or M1 0w40 FS are great oils, NApa Synthetic has prven to me to be a great oil, verfified by analysis.

 

I wouldn't use anything K&N. Lots of hype.
The facebookers seem to be infatuated with it.

Just me. Personal preference.

 

5000 miles or one year, whichever comes first. Use Pennzoil Platinum 5W-30. Use Wix or NAPA Gold filters. On my last car that I used only for work commutes (114 highway miles round trips for 7.5 years), I would change at 7,500 mile intervals. 222,300 miles with no problems.

 

Highway trips are exponentially better on the engine/oil than city driving so it's no wonder.

 

I change my oil every 5,000 miles even though most of them say they can go longer. Intervals of 5,000 miles is super easy to keep track of on the odometer without having to write it down on a windshield sticker or something and oil/filters are cheap. Rebuilding a motor is NOT cheap.

Personally, I prefer Penzoil Ultra Platinum and Fram Ultra Synthetic filters just because that's usually what's easily available in my part of the world. In reality, most any reasonable quality oil and filter will do just fine. I just ordered a Purolator Boss filter for my 8.1 because I couldn't easily find a Fram Ultra Synthetic filter. I just avoid the super cheap filters like Fram Extra Guard and other similar filters that cost about the same as a small coffee from McD's. I'll spend an additional $5 every oil change to get a better quality oil filter with better filtering properties any day of the week!

 

how I view fuel treatments too. I'll make my own coffee and hopefully help the truck out a bit instead haha @kcducttaper

 

@roorancher I also hate K&N.

I change when the truck tells me to. I try and do it once a year if I don't see the truck's change oil light come on but I forget and have pushed it out to two years. No big deal.

 

"Full synthetic" is like "whole grain bread." These guys are just writing things on labels that consumers think is good so they buy it.

I've blended 4-5 different same weight oils a few times - including Amsoil with that cheap ass blue bottle from Wally World. My engine didn't care.

At the very least, look the oil up on PQIA's site to see how it tested, what's in it, etc.

 

i have a 2016 2500hd with the 6.0. go to bob is the oil guy forum and you'll learn more than you ever wanted to know. bottom line you are definitely safe going by the OLM and can usually get away with using the same filter for 2 oil changes.

personally i cant see bothering to crawl under the truck and not swap the filter, so i change them both on the first convenient day when the OLM gets below 10%. delco filter and the cheapest dexos 5w-30 full syn i can find, used to be supertech but lately has been quaker state high mileage.

some people come here for help. Not to get asinine misinformation from a keyboard warrior who uses statements "you are definitely okay to only change your oil filter every other oil change."

You can not make that claim based from fact. So why make it?

If you want to go all ad hominem, you will lose.

To be fair, he said:

you are definitely safe going by the OLM and can usually get away with using the same filter for 2 oil changes.

"can usually get away with using same filter"..........not that "you are definitely okay to change your filter every other."

 

To be fair, he said:



"can usually get away with using same filter"..........not that "you are definitely okay to change your filter every other."

yeah thats fair and I read that too. But it is what he was suggesting, using the context of that rest of that post. We can all agree its a valid discussion amongst people who know their answers and own best practices. To suggest that to someone who is obviously not there themselves yet was not a wise move IMO, referring to the OP and future readers.

 

very well might, i stopped reading after that.

These things happen on a text base forum. no biggie

They said theirs, I said mine. Forward we move

 

very well might, i stopped reading after that.

These things happen on a text base forum. no biggie

no we have to have a generational blood feud over this, where my descendants and your descendants fight for eons over a relatively insignificant disagreement regarding best maintenance practices.

 

BAHAHAHAHA love it. @i82much

Well then, my great grandson is totally gonna kick your great grandsons ass ( probably will be my grandthem anyway haha) . But no one will know what 0w020 is then i suspect haha

 

BAHAHAHAHA love it. @i82much

Well then, my great grandson is totally gonna kick your great grandsons ass ( probably will be my grandthem anyway haha) . But no one will know what 0w020 is then i suspect haha

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

May the LBQRSTUVWXYZ movement be short lived and quickly forgotten.

 

well, at least now were best friends. just dont touch my drumset and we groovy

 

you dont even wanna know how infrequently i change my guitar strings ...

 

rust is good on strings, becomes a nice tetanus infused exfoliant. Plus it gives you that grungy sound. @i82much

Only have to change them out every other time they were due! bahahahahahahahaha sorry couldnt help myself

 

The OP originally just asked for an oil change recommendation….that’s a pretty simply question.
The it turned into a shit.show as people have to criticize, flame, judge, admonish others, and then the name calling starts.
So many threads have had the same issues. How silly.
Three or four well written responses would have answered the OP’s question. What ever happened to HELP rather than SLAM on a forum???

 

The OP originally just asked for an oil change recommendation….that’s a pretty simply question.
The it turned into a shit.show as people have to criticize, flame, judge, admonish others, and then the name calling starts.
So many threads have had the same issues. How silly.
Three or four well written responses would have answered the OP’s question. What ever happened to HELP rather than SLAM on a forum???

have you by chance heard of "the internet?"

 

The topic is oil, what do you expect?

 

As countless scorched earth threads have gone before you, so to shall yours be locked

 

Thanks for all the responses. Much appreciated. A question regarding oil may seem dumb to most, especially on here. I knew what the general recommendations were for oil change intervals.. However, since this is a forum specifically for GM trucks & alot of people on here have the same truck & engine as me & are also very knowledgeable about these trucks in particular, I just wanted to hear what others preferred & did with there trucks🤷‍♂️

 

Do u guys replace the drain plug with a new one when u change ur oil or just re-use it?

 

hell no