JPCharmin

i dont know about you guys but i certainly dont want all this oil sucking into my intake clogging my injectors and such... everyone should get a catch can!

JPCharmin

http://www.uprproducts.com/ford-truc...tor-50-11.html

parkgt

My truck is at 12,500 miles. In the last 5k it used about 1/2qt. My catch can has probably caught about 3-4 ounces in the last 9K. May not make any difference, but I just like piece of mind I get knowing that nasty s++t is not going into the intake.

kbass24emtp

Don't forget that is also catches water vapor too, since it has gotten cold where I live. I just started seeing some water in my catch can. I'm so glad I put one on when I first got it.

Hostility

could someone please take an inside pic of the lid?

JPCharmin

the top is stuffed with steel wool above that screen

BE25FX4

i'm a little confused JPC.... you are having blow-by problems on a 5.0 or ecoboost? usually you see this on turbo (or super) charged motors. i used to have this problem with my old vw gti.

i have a 5.0 and haven't had any problems with oil consumption, but i haven't checked the intake tube.

Gmc350

The oil change intervals are Way to long 5-6000km after that oil thins out and starts getting where it shouldn't manufactures are in a competition to have "a zero maintenance vehicle"but the downside is this is what u end up with pay me now or pay me later

parkgt

WOW, thousand of oil test by the independent labs must be wrong then when they report that many of the modern oils are doing a fine job well above 5000 miles?

How many oil related engine failures have any of us heard of on vehicles running oil changes at 5000 to 7000 miles not km?

junehhan

I think it just depends on what conditions your vehicle operates in. I would be considered to be severe service duty for the simple reason my commutes to and from work are 40-80 seconds long and it is dusty as hell depending on whether it has been long enough between precipitation for the roads to have dried out. I have utilized extended drain intervals on nearly all of my previous vehicles, but will likely be sticking to 5000 miles or sooner now that I am here in Alaska.

I don't understand the previous posters claim about oil thinning out either as many tests show that oil viscosity usually increases out of range the longer the oil has been in the vehicle between drain intervals in a vehicle that is in good operating condition. I've done oil analysis in the past and found that while the oil is still good at 7500 or 10k miles, the viscosity is well outside of recommended specs. I found that by 10k miles, an oil originally rated for 0w30 was operating nearly at 10w40.