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Anyone put together a maintenance checklist for their truck? Was looking through the shop manual and noticed there's a lot that needs attention frequently on these old trucks.

Will be making my own list, but wanted to see what ideas were out there.

On the pouch that the owners manual came in originally, there is a maintanance schedule printed on it. These are available repro. I'm a mechanic by trade (ASE Certified Master Auto Technitian), I just follow that same as doing a customers car. At oil changes, change oil filter, check air filter(s), grease all fittings, tire pressures (I usually rotate mine at the same time) check brake adjustment, all lamps, all fluid levels, and clean battery terminals if needed. If you still have the points style ignition (I don't), checking dwell and timing wouldn't hurt either. You should also test the coolant twice a year (spring and fall) for at least boil and freeze protection, they have test strips that test for corrosion protection now, too.

One of own members Larry Kephart (LAROKE)has a great section on maintenance on his website, I am going to use this as the place to start on my 53 when it goes on the road.

Here is the link: http://www.laroke.com/larryk4674/2001/bbmaint.htm

Nice list, very detailed!

Looks a lot like a PMCS (Preventative Maintenance Checks and Services). I do them a lot in our motor pool. There's a seperate list for before, during, and after operations checks, as well as a weekly, monthly, semi-annually, and annually performed list for every truck and trailer in the lot. The Marine Corps doesn't want these trucks to break!

Larry's list looks about what is in my shop manual. Good stuff in his list. Pretty much what I was looking for. As far as the checklists thing goes, I guess it's a pilot thing. Checklist is the backup for the brain.

It seems easy to forget or lose track of the maintenance on a truck I only drive once or twice a week. I like the checklist and made a copy to put in a folder inside the cab.

Thanx fellas.

Along with my everchanging maintenance list, I keep a spreadsheet offline for the items that have mileage/time intervals. When I perform a task, I enter date and mileage in the spreadsheet and two calculated fields at the end of the row show me the next date/milestone when I have to perform the task again. I look at this spreadsheet every week and compare it to my current date and odo readings to see which tasks are becoming due.