Old Trucks
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by farmerjohn64, Jul 22, 2020.
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Most diagnostics these days can be done with an OBD scan tool for about $600. Tho trucks tend to have a lock out code to keep drivers from tampering with the settings. You can google the code to unlock the ECM. Also there are laptop interfaces that can be purchased.
As a business owner. The headache that comes with older equipment, especially with class 8 trucks will be metal fatigue. You cant see it short of doing a magna flux on the frame. The wiring in older trucks from the millions of miles driven may give you headaches as well. As the truck has bounced down the roads from the millions of miles. Wiring becomes brittle and will seperate in the wire casing. You will think you have what ever circuit repaired. Then go down the road and a crack in the road will seperate what ever break again and undo what ever repair you might have tried to repair.
An average truck is good for 2 million miles. There after to get away from the wiring gremlins, people will get truck gliders.Speed_Drums and farmerjohn64 Thank this. -
If your on youtube. You might want to watch the vids from twinstick garage and Ezrider92356. They both recently did restorations on older iron.
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I just heard on radio Cummins stopped making or very hard to get a ECM for the N14 engine. Even if you buy a rebuilt N14 from Cummins it come with I think they said M11 ECM. Detroit hear Detroit has trouble with pistons for the S60 not being balance correct. . You had company like Fitzgerald glider kits. That rebuilt engines themselves did really bad jobs. It sounds like getting part for older engine is getting more difficult today.
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