Before buying checklist? First Truck.

Would you with that test and a 3rd party mechanic looking over it and giving a thumbs up that the major components like engine/transmission/heads would give you inleast a good 6 months?

Not meaning to hijack thread

 

The emissions truck may get caught in the middle of regen often with doing somewhat short hauls rather than mostly highway driving. Could cause problems. Emissions fixes are not cheap to fix, unless you decide to fix them permanently. For that reason I would look more closely at the 2005. A difference from 800 and 900 miles isn't much considering they are the same price. I would probably buy the 2005 and run it until it didn't go anymore, if I was in your shoes.

 

The dyno does two things, first it tells you how much horse power is being produced, this is an indicator of wearing out. If you have an engine that produces 70% of its rated power, it is not worth the effort in buying, you want to get it above 80%.

The other part of the test is the blowby test, it shows the wear in the rings which is important and is always done under a load - a full load. I've read some jokes on other forums that it is only done while idling or while partial load but it has to be a FULL LOAD.

the tech can tell you if the blowby is too much, again you want it as low as possible and if it is in the upper 50% of the range, don't bother with the truck, it will need an inframe soon.

 

How would go about making sure it was tested under a full load?

 

That's ######, thanks man