Ford F-150 with a CAT diesel!

Burky's right. The smallest Ford to offer a Cat is the F650 and F750.

 

Peterbilt should start building pickups. They'd be big, of course, but they'd sell, no doubt. I'd get one of these, assuming the drive trains could take it. I wouldn't want to be like those retired guys you see broken down on the side of the highway in their big, studly RVs. These are the rigs with the he-man engines but she-male trannies and diffies.

 

Lots of engine rumors going around.

the one i heard was all of caterpillars smaller engines are built by perkins.

 

I might be mistaken, but I think that Cat and Perkins have a joint agreement for engine building in South Africa. Used in equipment made locally, and some for export to various third world countries. Some places prohibit Cat engines due to problems such as support of Israel, and this gets around that type of issue.

 

CAT could stop building engines for class 8s, sure. I don't know why they'd do that, so I'm trying to find a reason. One reason they may do it is perhaps they would simply start recycling old engines. What a pitiful reason.

It's good these BS rumours start going around, such as "CAT will stop building engines". It gets us thinking about how the world really works.

 

It's good to hear Perkins is still around. I remember the old Oliver tractors that had the Perkins diesels. When their bottom ends were balanced properly, those engines were great.

 

No matter what brand it is, if it has a CAT engine, one should make sure the driveline can handle it.

I remember driving OTR in the summer and seeing all the broken-down RVs on the side of the road. These usually had the "CAT" decal on the back, so I know the engines weren't at fault. The weak drive trains had obviously failed, unless those guys simply ran out of fuel.

A $300,000 rolling hotel room doesn't necessarily come with a tranny, rear-end, or U-joints that can handle a big CAT engine.