# Diesel truck maintenance **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Created:** [August 27, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/diesel-truck-maintenance/18752 "2008-08-27T20:14:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MissEve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@MissEve](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MissEve)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/diesel-truck-maintenance/18752/1 "2008-08-27T20:14:06Z")
I just got my first Diesel truck. Its an ?84 Ford F250. The engine only has 70,000 miles on it. I am used to doing the regular maintenance on my old F150, (oil change, tune up, air filter) is there any different kind of routine maintenance that I need to know about for a diesel? I already found out that I don?t need to do a tune up on it 😛 ---
**Author:** ![MikeInNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MikeInNH](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MikeInNH)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/diesel-truck-maintenance/18752/2 "2008-08-27T20:33:50Z")
There are no spark-plugs…so you can eliminate that. Outside of that…everything else should be close to the same. Oil changes…filters. Just be sure to use an oil that’s rated for Diesel…NOT ALL OILS ARE. ---
**Author:** ![researcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/edb3f5/32.png) [@researcher](https://community.cartalk.com/u/researcher)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 7:55pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/diesel-truck-maintenance/18752/3 "2008-08-28T19:55:24Z")
Also adhere to the oil and filter change schedule in the owner/operator manual and change the fuel filters with quality units on the manual’s recommendation. Find out if this truck has a water separator; if it has a warning device; and how to drain excess water. The air filter will have to be serviced more often because of the amount of air going through the engine. A blocked air intake on a Diesel of this year would probably show up as black smoky exhaust on acceleration. Some Diesel air filters have a air depression telltale that shows up when the air filtration system is excessively blocked.