Bigrich406, you have 3 posts to your credit and all 3 off topic. Read the title of this tread.
You are welcome to make a new thread and debate whatever you believe in.
No good deed goes unpunished around here. Try to help a guy whose engine only has 4k miles on it where the crankcases are not too full of sludge yet and this is the response you get.
Gotta also love all the "experts" who know more than a professional certified MB mechanic with decades of experience who has pulled apart seized Bluetec motors.
Whatever man. Enjoy your vans and absolutely do your oil changes every 20k miles. Don't worry because "modern" surfaces are nice and shiny and have "special coatings" so no break-in oil is required. Yep, Joe Gibbs Racing Driven sells a specially formulated diesel break-in oil for those rubes who don't realize that the OEM oil will be just fine for the break-in.
I love the "legs up" comment. Typical, rather than refute a single point made in the article, just trash the whole thing as hogwash. But I bet none of the naysayers have ever pulled the pan off a Bluetec that has seized from sludge.
And whatever you do, don't put a catch can on the system, that's just snake oil (heavy sarcasm).