Double Yellow's Company Driver to Independent Thread

I hope you come out allright DY, the best thing you got going for you is 12.7 Detroit. cheap and simple, hopefully even a RedForeman recommended shop can't screw that up.

 

So you're going to send some green to red, so yellow won't be blue? That'll make things just golden, assuming he stays in the black.

 

40 hrs is standard time for a inframe, 20 for head replace, don't skip on the the bull gear, doing it by its self is quite expensive, you got it all apart take advantage and replace everything, it will pay off in the long run.

 

I replaced my harnesses and a lot off weird things quit occurring . Still got some strange codes until speed sensor in transmission was replaced, no more codes. Only CEL in the last year was low coolant, and that was a bad sensor.

 

If the bull gear breaks what will it cost? Dampener should be replaced about every 500,000, worst problem it would cause is a broken crank, not near as common as it was years ago.

One thing I have always said is that trucks eat money and it's hard to explain to someone getting into the business, on the good side my shop is only $80 per hour and they don't mind if I shop and provide parts.

 

Replacing the bull gear is not part of an inframe. The radiator and other parts in the front are not taken off. The bull gear is a totally separate job. You save nothing by having it done at the same time. I would do the minimum to get going again until you build up your cash reserves again.

There's a few places down in Texas close to the border that do inframes near Juarez. They had 3 going all the time. If I remember it was around $8k for a Detroit and 4 days.

You can always factor also. Paid the next day at 7am.

 

Well. On the bright side of things - you now have a pretty close idea of what size hole it's going to leave in the wallet.

I'm with @Old Man on the bull gear - as I understand it's a critical item, especially if you're going to inframe. (correct me if wrong).

Though it's another $3,000 down, it completes the main course, like you say, the -$EV (I don't know what that means, but it looks like running in the hole for a bit) will protect the cash flow going forward.

I heard the nervous loud and clear. Every . . . nervous . . . "what was that noise?" . . . mile down the road to build up the reserve.

I thought I was in Dutch draining my maintenance reserve of $2200. Looks like I've got a bit to learn.

I'll be watching.

 

It seems to run in cycles,for me anyway. I'll have 6-8 months where it's just regular service. Then 2-3 months of one thing after another.
During the good months I put every spare penny back for the bad months. Right now I'm in the bad cycle. In the last two months I've spent a third of last years total repair bill.