Thanks for all the things I need to look into, but sadly, I'm still a rookie in spotting these kinds of things as an owner-operator. So I just dropped off my truck at the shop used by my old boss that serviced the truck for him for years and the owner of the shop even gave me 20% off labor for being a first time customer and for bringing my old bosses truck they know well already. So I'll have the day off tomorrow and with Saturday/Sunday should give the shop three days to do the repairs up to changing the clutch if it's that. I'll know more tomorrow afternoon after the shop has a good look at the issue.
The way I described the issue when loaded, the shop owner told me they will put a 17 ton steel beam in my bed they have used to service wheel loaders to test the actual conditions when loaded and such, never heard of a shop doing that which sounds neat. So hopefully it's only a minor repair of a part that lasted since new at about 690k miles.
Even if it did turn out that I need a new clutch, is 690k miles on the original good or such, not very familiar with how long parts like that should last? This is going to be a learning process on taking care and properly maintaining my truck. Mind you, I've never had anything like this happen since I started driving back in 2014 all in manual trucks ranging from 8LL to 13 and even 18 speed, so I believe I have learned the proper usage of the clutch and such through my father who is a 30+ year trucking veteran.
New owner operator, have issue with clutch
Discussion in 'Trucks [ Eighteen Wheelers ]' started by Eltigre363, Aug 15, 2019.
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