Buying a tractor

These guys post threads that are so vague. Yeah it could be a good truck but it could be a real piece of junk without knowing absolutely anything about it or going over the whole truck in person.

 

Is a chevy silverado v8 a good truck?

 

Exactly. Lmao

 

No! But a GMC Sierra 1500 with a V8 is!

 

I think there okay, except for the brown one's the brown one's weren't very good, but the silver colored one's worked pretty good.

 

Oh yeah. They’re a good truck. I drove one for a few years. I really liked it

 

My buddy had a green , so I know they are the best.

 

If I remember correctly,when the 60series first came out, Detroit gave them to the top drivers in a lot of major companies. I'm not sure on this point but if I remember right they ran them on synthetic oil for over a million miles each and then disassembled them with no appreciable wear on any of the moving parts.I can't remember if that was one oil change or if they did intervals.But they definitely passed the test.As far as Cummins goes, they've been around forever(at least my lifetime)and they've built some outstanding motors, but lately I've been hearing bad things about the electronics and emissions controls. Do your homework and research both and make an educated decision. My vote goes to Detroit, just on reliability and personal experience.

 

All of the engines did well. Majority of my time is Detroit in my lifetime. I have pushed one to 25K miles inbetween oil changes and the shop reported no apparent problems with the sampling of same. (Rotella T)

Cummins run on one RPM the best, their history dates to the Ocean going engines. However the few I ran in the 80's did very well, the last one was a M11 I believe in the 90's (Or N11 Not sure.. but 350 for certain) it was a good engine for being careful with coil. Not particularly fast which is not wanted when you have monsters on the deck. One cummins was particularly bad, probably because of the excessively tall 10 speed roadranger mated to it by some idiot who does not know how to spec a truck. By the time you run out your gear and go to shift up you aint got the moxie anymore to finish the new gear on the small hills in PA. So downshift you go.

CAT is one engine I never got enough of. The older ones. 3406's You can run them 10 million miles if necessary. You might have to fix it when finished but it will do it for you. One cat totally failed the water pump but maintained it's coolant all the way from Philly to Kenly NC one trip and when shut off overnight, went ahead and made a green lake under the truck. Fortunately the shop was on the property so it was not a problem to drive without the coolant a short distance unlike computer engines today that cannot be bothered to run when a pint low.

The two stroke engines. I basically abused them. In the old days of old iron, you stood on the floor with the hammer when you are going anywhere with them at any weight. It will get you there. I was constantly heavy on weight, way past gross. But the little engines got it done. I must wonder how in the world they didnt blow up with one exception that burnt it's Pyrometer one bad day that one was totaled out. Never saw it again.

I wondered sometimes what is possible if you had two stroke large horse engines. Not the tiny 280's but something truly epic say 550 and beyond.

The computer stuff has made all engines alike. You can have a thousand cars at the auction house and since they all run the same way with computer control, there is no difference between this engine and that engine. They all whine the same like a weed eater. Such a shame.

By instinct I avoid trucks that have labels applied to them. Really good trucks don't need a label.

 

Your buddy has green? Does he sell by the ounce or quarter?