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Originally Posted by Aufgeblassen
That's rediculous! The whole point of the see-through dome is to change it when it actually needs to be changed, rather than at some arbitrary time or mileage interval. Once I went 100's of 1,000's of miles on an air filter, and my air filter looked dirty, but the little vacuum gauge only read 1/2 way. I changed my filter anyways, but it made absolutely no difference on either power or MPG's, so now I don't change it until gauge reads FULL.
It's not rediculous at all, it's just what I do. Why would you want to run a fuel filter with ALMOST clogged passages? thats what it is when it's 1/2way up..... it's 1/2 way plugged LOL
Also, my rig only has 1 fuel filter on it, not the dual set-up like most. I think if I had 2 filters I'd be more likely to skip a month. Also, I have been finding out that IL uses 20% bio-diesel and thats another reason I have been changing it more often. For the 1st few months it was clogging up every 5k miles do to the bio cleaning out my tanks (you should see the slime that was in the filter, nasty stuff) But it's just my choice....
As far as power and MPG it doesn't make a difference anyways, I just like to be preventive rather than fix a bad injector due to poor fuel quality. I seriously think if $30 a month is CRAZY to you, then maybe you should NOT be running your own truck, or take another look at your budget. Thats a drop in the bucket man, and if you skipped 1 buffet a week you could afford it. Not saying you even eat at them, but that would give you $30 LOL
It does seem to me that you are running on a VERY tight budget tho according to all your previous posts. Maybe things aren't working out the way they should be??
If you wait till your motor ACTUALLY needs rebuilt, you would be down for a few weeks and prob cost more due to some internal damage from something breaking..... same goes with everyother part on your truck. My truck is a 99 model and it's time to replace just about everything. I started with the front axle and am working my way back. Only thing I have left now to replace is the clutch and rebuild the motor, everything else is now new.