What year truck ? If it's a 2007 or older 1 million then a rebuilt engine then your good to go. 2008 or newer 600k is when your emissions is toast and you need a new truck.
Some numbers for new O/O
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New trucks get great fuel mileage. Late 03 to 14s get terrible fuel mileage. 97ish to early 03 was the sweet spot of low maintenance costs and good enough fuel mileage. Those were the years that gave us the efficiency of electronic controlled engines for fuel economy but not the emissions related problems and expense that started with engine model year 03.
If it was me I'd be looking for a well maintained 2000 to early 2003 ddec iv powered truck. 12.7l if running no more than 100k lb. Gross. 14l if running loads over 100k lbs. -
Idling is what kills modern trucks. Cheap fuel.
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My ISX is 450HP / 1650. 670K miles / 7.3 mpg lifetime. 3.58 gears
Another Cascadia I just picked up has DD15 / 455HP / 1650. 370K miles / 7.8 lifetime. 3.55 gears.
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I'm doing heavy haul. Most days I'm in the high 90s to 100k gross range.
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Also I'm not stupid my phone is. It can't spell Paccar unless I manually tell it that's the correct spelling
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Ddec is engine family. I havent run a 14l before so I can't comment on that,but they don't get as good fuel mileage.
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