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Originally Posted by Pilsner Man
But you will also have paid an extra $10 -15k in diesel services you don't have to worry about on a gasser.
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Maybe. I've had mine for 7 years and haven't done anything to it except the usual oil and filters. I did them all myself from new so an oil change cost me about $50. I do my own valve sets, although they're not really "diesel specific" and I doubt many guys have them done on their gas or diesel engines like they should.
Because I like to take care of my junk I've got my fuel filtered to 2 microns and 99% of the water. My oil has bypass filtration to 2 microns as well. I run Donaldson filters, monitor everything and make sure I do the usual maintenance on time as required (brake fluid, transmission, transfer case, power steering, coolant, grease, etc) but again all vehicles need these things.
The thing that kills diesels is improperly filtered fuel and air. Get dirty fuel and don't have it filtered properly and you'll take out your lift pump and injectors. Run a k&n air filter and dust your engine, you can kiss it goodbye.
Back in the old days before my emissions crap fell off I had to clean the egr every 80k km or so. That cost about $30 on the egr cleaning solution and took a couple hours to soak it. Or a guy could take it to the shop and they would of done it for about $300. There was also a ccv filter that had to be changed around 80 or 90k km and cost about $120. Those are specific to which diesel your running though and can be removed when deleted.
I'm not sure what additional maintenance a diesel requires that's going to cost $1500 a year over a gasser... do you?