Freightliners with Benz motor

yes the motor,and they have quit making them. the company i worked for had two of them, worked ok in the midwest but running out west with a heavy load the fuel mileage was extra bad. also they had a single head for each piston, usually had coolant leaking around each head, not good. if you go to auctions those trucks equipped with those motors are selling extra cheap. lots of luck

 

mb owns frieght liner for a long time. their hd motrs for either on or off road i would never again have, i mean i retired from driveing when i left carretta .got my captains license and a 48 foot charter boat, the standard engines were man engines which are MB"S ,i had so much trouble 3years later i had to have them pulled and repowered with c18 cats. no trouble since .boat wise i'm not alone, several guys i know have done the same and one captain has a 125 footer with 4 v12's for power, swaping out for a repower was a 400k job.

 

I have not heard many good things about those motors. The torque was not good at all was a common complaint. I think even Swift complained about them and that should tell you everything you need to know about them.

 

There is a reason if you look at similiar trucks with similiar miles and specs but one has a detroit and one has a benz....theres a reason why that one with the benz motor is cheaper. I remember before i bought this truck 2 years ago, how cheap the Freightliner Columbias were with the benz engines in them........

 

I have an 04 Freightliner with MB engine. it's 470HP. I'm the second owner of this truck and the previous owner (Leasing company) had kept up on maintenance and taken good care of it. So far it has served me quite well. No problems what so ever with the engine and it pulls stronger than a detroit 500 with similar truck configurations. I searched for reviews from trusted sources before I made the purchase and was pleased with what I read/heard. This truck averages about 6.5-7MPG even with a heavy load. I like this truck!

 

i drove one for a few months. it was a lease truck set at 74 and it had a super 10. it was also a single sleeper flat top and it got BAD and i mean BAD fuel mileage. around 4 mpg on average.

it had dual stacks and man did it sound good. the jakes sounded off nice as well, but the fuel mileage was the deal breaker.

 

thats something that I had heard about them that I had forgotten. That they were meant for medium duty trucks but not really for the North American market although they were lighter than the cummins or dd. I don't know if that was true but it may have been