# Question for the diesel owners on here **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Automotive\ **Created:** [December 19, 2009, 1:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/question-for-the-diesel-owners-on-here/249185 "2009-12-19T13:26:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 125
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/2X/b/b7170c8eddc0b95ece6b88172b2f416a08489a45.png) [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 11:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/question-for-the-diesel-owners-on-here/249185/125 "2009-12-20T11:20:44Z")
> [@Whatever Happened to....](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whatever-happened-to/27516/12): > > HAHA DEFINITLEY!! > > and im not looking to argue with you here at all, but i never said that turbos injectors and such were regular maintenance, nor are a set of heads or head gaskets or anything else of the sort on a gas truck…but agreed “tune ups” comparatively are the same. BUT if and when something goes wrong on a diesel or a gas truck say for instance the turbo goes bad (which happens often on fords) replacing that labor and parts included is definitley more expensive then throwing a head gasket at a gas truck labor and parts included. u cant agrue that. > > And about your 95 thats impressive, congrats u must have had a factory freak or have been really good to that truck cuz i have a friend who has a fleet of a few trucks and he has an 05 duramax a 95 chevy diesel dump and a 01 ford f-350 power choke and that 95 and 01 has costed him moooooore money in injectors, hes done the turbo on each truck, just tons and tons of maintenance but they are worked and worked fairly hard. but these things all happened prematurely without a doubt im not say that you in particular think that that is regular maintenance stuff, but that is stuff i here all the time as to why diesel are ridiculously expensive. which is usually never the case unless you buy a truck that has been pounded to shit or is one that just had problems right off the factory line. there again you can get the same thing with a gas engine, i dont think that ford planed on having all of the cylinder head problems that they are dealing with in the 5.4’s, but sometimes shit just happens. yeah if my 95 wasnt 2wd i wouldnt have gotten rid of it. it wasnt ever babied, but it always got maintnence when it needed it. im sick of hearing that they were all pieces of shit and blew up, when all the ones that ive seen blown up were going 25k+ miles between oil changes and didnt know what maintnence was. i know they werent the best, but they didnt ALL blow up. i had the boost cranked up on mine and had the fuel going right to it and that truck never skiped a beat. it would walk by a cummins 12valve any day of the week. but oil changes and proper cool downs are crucial for turbo life, if your using your truck like a truck you need to let it cool down before you shut it off. the turbo bearings reach some pretty high temps, and if you just cut off oil flow the the charger while everyting is still toasty, the oil will actually bake to the turbo shaft, causing pre-mature wear. and a big thing for fuel systems, especially for older trucks that are now running on this new fuel, is runing something for a fuel additive. the new fuel is as dry as it comes, so a little addded lubricity is a necessity. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/question-for-the-diesel-owners-on-here/249185)._