In the next few months I will begin to see CT13 engines coming though our shop, these are basically Maxxforce 13s painted yellow so I am wondering what I need to know about these engines, common issues, complaints, maintenace tips, etc.
Any info would be appreciated, thanks.
I have already heard if you back into a dock hard enough the crank gear can rotate on the crank throwing the cam timing out causing major issues.
Maxxforce 13 the good, the bad, the ugly?
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And I thought my Accert was a mess! lol...
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Most of what Ive seen has been failed oxygen sensors and EGR related (cracked bellows and clogged cores).
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Recently when I was at my international dealer one of their older techs pulled me over to his bay, had to show me his project, a plugged tight egr cooler on a maxforce in a prostar, he was saying what a pain it was just to get to the cooler. The worse part is the truck only had 70k miles on it! No thanks!
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rrw811 Thanks this.
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WOW!!!!!! I'm glad I don't make my living turning wrenches on these things everyday. I'm assuming they're turning the air compressor off the ring gear of the flywheel, am I correct? This should be interesting if the ring gear gets a broken tooth from poor starter engagement.
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I am led to believe they are a rear gear train engine so the cam and compressor are gear driven at the rear, everything else is belt driven from the front.
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I know a lot if not all the newer Cummins use the rear gear drive. Awhile back I took a few classes at Cummins they claimed it was for noise control, I think its part of the conspiracy to make trucks as hard as possible to work on.
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