I'll check my oil temps today. I normally don't monitor them - normally watch Pyro, throttle input (I know - weird), trans, coolant.

What valvoline do you run? I might try it.....

I bought my '10 last July w/57k on it. I have 78k now and love it. When the warranty is up in March I will do the delete and keep it until I find a reason to change.

2010 F-350 4x4

15w40 Turbo Diesel. The the Blue jug.

I think it says specifically formulated for Cummins turbo diesels on it:poopoo:

I monitor EGTs, Boost, and Coolant temp on my main screen. Then on a secondary screen I watch 9 other things including Oil temps.

Really no reason to wait. If you love it now wait until after it's tuned. It will put a big smile on your face.

The truck is better off not dumping raw fuel down the exhaust stroke. And I'd say a majority of the horror stories I have read were on stock trucks. YMMV.

My truck is the same color as yours BTW!

I did the same - waited until my warranty was up and then deleted. Wish I'd have done it right away.....

Somewhere Catmando is grinning ear to ear. A couple ford guys using a cummins product.....

I did mine at 12k. Didnt like the idea of Diesel fuel in my crankcase.

Agreed. when I drained 18 quarts out of a 16 quart oil pan into a 16 quart bucket it highlighted the problem, but i suffered through it till the warranty expired anyways. Hindsight 20/20

So you want to do 2 deletes - 1. EGR and the second one is DPF. How much can one expect to pay for those 2 deletes and I'm sure that not everyone can do this nor the know how.

My truck had a Ford recall ECM reflash that was done already. - its a 2010 6.4 F350 4x4. The fuel mileage on these Fords are bad (stock) or it is with mine compared to what people report they are getting with their Dodges (Cummings)

About every 3 months my monitor lite comes on and reads "cleaning the exhaust system or filter - something like that" One time it stayed on for a while like 20 mins while driving. One time I could smell diesel really bad while driving as I thought maybe an injector or two got hung open. Just asking because maybe this is caused by something that needs to be address. thanks for the replies.

I understand about oil changes being important but I have a few times gone to 6.5 K so I need to not go past the 5k mark on the oil / filter change.

First focus is on deleting the DPF.

You need a tuner to delete. Most tunes also turn off the EGR so removing that is not as critical.

You can get a Dpf-r which is only about 400 bucks and delete pipes can be found all over for less than 100. They take about a half hour to remove the old pipe.

Personally I went with H&S tuner because it also functions as a monitor, has shift on the fly and limitless tuning options for both engine and transmission which is about 1500. There are options in between such as spartan and SCT that would be less than 1000.