Foreign diesel engines.

Discussion in 'Trucks [ Eighteen Wheelers ]' started by VARITHMS, Dec 6, 2009.

  1. VARITHMS

    VARITHMS Medium Load Member

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    I have nothing against american diesel engines. Is there any other diesel engines you would like to try? Mercedes has a 32 valve 16L V8 I would like to give a shot 560ish hp. Maby a Scania, I do not like the look of the euro trucks, just interested in the engines.
     
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  3. Big Duker

    Big Duker "Don Cheto"

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    I messed with a couple of Scanias in yard in Iraq. They are supposed to be pretty tough.
     
  4. Stroked F550

    Stroked F550 Medium Load Member

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    the problem with foreign motors is that you don't have the service and part support like you do with the domestic motors.
     
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  5. VARITHMS

    VARITHMS Medium Load Member

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    That is a good point. We have a little tilt flat bed mitsubishi, Most parts take 1-2 weeks.
     
  6. Jfaulk99

    Jfaulk99 Road Train Member

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    Even with the more common Mercedes engines Freightliner/Sterling were peddling for a while take forever to get parts. Front main seal was a 2 week fix.
     
  7. Mr Ed

    Mr Ed Road Train Member

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    We had a 1988 Scania 40' bus. It had a Scania 238 Hp motor, I think,it was a long time ago.
    It had a cool centrifical oil filter , that you only had to pull off and clean. Everything that could leak did.Head gaskets,exhaust,oil fittings,radiator,ac. We paid $118.000 for it and got less than 7 yrs out of it.Even though at the time it was built in Orange Ct.,all parts had to come from Sweden.
     
  8. Truck Driver

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    After running a few of the mercedes motors that freightliner offered, I want nothing to do with anything out of europe. The last motor I ran was a 425 C-12 Cat with well over a million miles and no major work had ever been done on it. The motor i'm running now is a 450 mercedes with 510,000 miles on it and it don't pull nearly as good and ain't half as reliable as the Cat was.
     
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