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Loooong day today. Been fighting with my paccar trying to get it up to the dealer to warranty the 2 week old parts that failed. Once thats done its getting parked. The new rig is in the shop atm getting kitted out and should be on the road by friday. Monday at the latest. Would have been tomorrow but im making them drop my DPF filter and EGR then cleaning them. Also having them swap a few of the common failure sensors out of raw parinoia as well as flush out my def tank.

ECM was showing a small restriction in the DPF so i decided to head off the issue and just clean everything so i dont have a repeat of my last rig.

 

How heavy will your set up be @Arctic_fox I was surprised to see how much heavier I was with the new spread axle Mac, 33,200’ish fuel of fuel.

 

Hard to say. My current rig is 34700 and the truck alone is 26000ish. Supposidly this one is 4000 pounds lighter based off the sticker. But until i got the trailer on and cat scale it i wont know for sure. Best guess is 34k or less.

 

Did my post trip today and found my 5th wheel is cracked. Thats not terrifying at all. Good thing its getting parked lol

 

Sheesh, the front end of this brand new anthem feels absolutely terrible, I swear it will fall apart any day now, dealer says it’s good to go. If I end up missing from the thread, come looking for me off in the woods of I75 in Florida, my steer tires will be in the median, should be a tell tale sign of my whereabouts

 

We just put a 2nd set of steers on my 23 at 280000 miles. Wearing off right shoulder of right steer. An they couldn't explain why. Said the front end alignment was on the nose. The drives were off a smidge. So we'll see how long these last.

 

@Professor No-Name mine is more of a looseness, notchiness between the 5th wheel and the steering, maybe I’m just over critical, but give me a good 2013 T660 glider with a Cat and an 18 speed, and send me on down the road, @motocross25 any idea where a man might find such a thing

 

I'll take an old school 379 Peterbilt with a big 500 horse cat in it and an 18 speed. I've never rode in anything smoother. Be nice of Santa would park one in my driveway for Christmas.

 

And for good measure, my 22K mile truck is showing a check engine code for the sensor that was replaced on Tuesday, isn’t technology great!

 

This is the new era of trucking, or should I say “error”