Pretty much the same advice you'd get for any car.

Watch the tire pressure, rotate the tires so they last.

These trucks are heavy and the tires don't last forever. With heavy towing, I'm lucky to get 28,000 to 30,000 miles per set of tires.

Change your oil every 5000 and follow the schedule for filters, tranny flushes etc.

The oil change places tell you change the oil every 3000. I think the manual says 7500 or 6000 miles for light duty. I sent a few oil samples into Blackstone labs and my oil seems to be doing great at 5000 miles. So thats when I change mine. If you run in a reallly dirty environment or have lots of idle time, you may want to change at 3000.

Other than that, just remember to lower your tailgate when you hook/unhook your GN

Thanks everyone. I always did keep good maintenance on my gas engines. I will maintain this one no different. I know that the maint. will be a bit more. But in the long run I won't regret buying it....I was already shocked to find out how much more oil capicity it has over a gas engine....And 2 batteries! I think my eyes bugged out   the first time I looked under the hood. I still want to dress it up a bit. I had horse graphics on the other one and everyone gave me comments on. I will post a pic when it's dressed up.   Happy Trails

Can't hear you ?

Must have been a Dodge....

I push the tow haul button everytime I hook up a trailer.

The newer tranny's really work well with loads. I can come down 7% grades and never touch my brakes.

With my 2000 truck I was turning the rotors every 35,000 miles because they were warping from the heat. I never had any brake maintanence on my 2003 truck in 90,000 miles and I expect the same out of my 2006 truck. The tranyy and engine are doing the braking now.

Ive been running DELO 400 engine oil in my diesel.  Anyone have prefrences on oil brands?  5000 miles seems to be about right.  On the new Chevy's they have an engine oil life indicator, and I never let mine drop below 30%.

Is it extreemly bad to switch oil brands?  I'm about to hit 30,000 miles on mine, and the truck is ready for transmission fluid flush etc.  Wanna take it into the shop for oil/tranny, but i've always changed the oil my self, and I'm sure the guys at GM will wanna use their 'own' oil brand.

Fuel MPG sounds ok.Make sure you hand calculate.Overheads area a average.

Originally written by mingiz on 2006-08-31 5:22 PM

Must be deaf....It's a Ford

Maybe...

Delo is a great oil I have used it for years.I used the synthetic delo 5w40 in my last diesel,after it was broke in and gained about 2 mpg.When my new Ford is broke in I will switch to synthetic again.

There is a synthetic transmission oil put out by Allison but alot of Gm dealers won't put it in so you have to go to allison for it.

Diesels are fun,you could always take oil in with you for the service.