Needing some help guys

Oh Boy! Are you the driver or are you not with the truck?

 

That will be a very costly tow id try and go to a truck repair center and have it fixed there is a truck junk yard in sacramento ca

 

Big T's Freightliner | Service Parts & Repair | Oxnard, California

 

Might help to post where in California the truck is.

 

Might want to hire a drop deck rather than a tow truck if ya have to get it to fla cause a tow would charge you both ways cause he ain't gonna find a back haul maybe check the bone yard for a engine tto gotta be one around

 

First you need to know where you are going to get the engine swapped out. Check the truck paper, junk yards ect... dont limit your self just to the west coast you can have it shipped.

 

Find a motor here; http://www.heavytruckparts.net/index.php

Find a shop to swap it as close as you can to where the truck is.

Simple.

 

Wow ! That's rough......ok as a co. maint director or single owner here's what I'd do:

1 Repower load if loaded, put trailer in storage lot if empty or broker wagon home.
2 Verify engine is junk....calls, video, driver testimony etc..... even pay road call to local Freightliner dealer for a look see.
3 Use my driver to hire wrecker etc to get mule on step deck and broker home.


Points: My resources, trusted suppliers etc are all here. There's a very good chance I'm going to get porked trying to swap an engine from 3000 miles away . Brokering my iron home will look more expensive in the front but consider the alternative.........or you can call Freighliner for a reman installed.....it's worth a quote.

Last thing I would do is when this is over I would visit the business model. Is what I'm doing worth all the grey hair I just got???

Good luck and let us know how it turn out.....