How Many Miles is Too Many?

You drove only 300k miles in 15 years? Are you using this truck as an RV?

 

He said the truck is 15 years old. Not that he has owned it for 15 yrars.

 

Good catch. I guess I should hit the sack if I'm too tired to read properly.

 

2001 Int, 500 hp 12.7 Detroit. Long term plan is to save up and buy a Peterbilt glider in two years and switch the entire driveline over. Kinda buying a glider in two stages....

 

I purchased the truck in '09, I average about 55-65K miles a year.

 

I like it!

When I bought my truck, I bought it for running in northern Canada. It had the engine I wanted, the transmission, the rear ends, the wheelbase, the sleeper. It was everything I wanted, but it was old.

I built the engine, got the ECM dyno tuned, bigger turbo, custom clutch, bigger radiator, grenaded the transmission, and ordered a much stronger transmission. I guess I could do the same thing...get me a newer truck and transfer the guts and everything into the newer truck..

 

Northern Canadia? Are you going to take the first load to Resolute?

 

My friend bought a 2011 volvo cummins engine from an owner operator he new for years. Truck looks and drives brand new. He over paid 10k for that reason trusting his friend took care of it.. It's been two monthes now. Had a thing here and there go wrong..it's at about 600k miles.. Now it's in the shop for an over haul..

I was told "if a truck is over 700k you're good"

 

For me there are more factors than just the mileage. I just bought a '95 KW that has 2.5 mil on it. The guy I bought it from has had it the last 5.5 years and had a journal of everything he did to it while he had it.

 

I would rather buy a million mile pete or kw with a Cat Cummins or Detroit pre egr. Than anything new.