1993 FLD120 12.7?

My T600 is a 93 ddec2. It has blow-by too but still pulls 6.5 round trip Montana to Colorado. Never misses a beat. Those did come in a 430 or 470 hp. Eric can get you more HP if you want it. Sending him an ecm to program for me.

 

I also grew up in shoebox coffin sleepers. I had transported a couple once or twice in it to get em out of very high threat areas. All I had was giggle for 300 miles through the suspension. ugh. Not doing that again.

Im actually GLAD the industry disposed of small sleepers. Humans need some space, to be human. No matter how many months Im able to stay in a large car, it takes either time off at home or a week in a hotel hamptons or something nice to get the sleeper out of your bones. It's only a thin matress and some steel.

 

It doesn't have to be. If it's a twin bed, then you can put any mattress you like!

 

Ok 253,285 gallons times 5 miles to gallon reveals a 1266425 miles possible

Engine Hours? That's a little bit harder. Let's try 35 miles an hour average against 44051 (Fleets do 50 mph avg, but my real world tripplanning and actual ETA delivery arrival falls somewhere between 25 to 40 mph avg with the exception of teams when we only stop 30 hours at most to guzzle 300 plus gallons of fuel for the next 30 hours. We do everything else inside the cab and sleeper including toiletry.

It came out to 1541785 miles theoratical max run. Take away 168 hours minus I guess 100 hours per week, that's a 25% or more loss sitting around sleeping, idling, waiting, cooling down etc. 44051 with 25% applied to the mileage theoratical run results in 385446 miles lost. (Not run, actual hours stay the same.)

There is a small percentage idle time applied through trip master against my safety bonus of around 3% or less, it could be cut down to 1% for the max payout by killing the engine at each and every single traffic light and starting up again the moment it turned green. I hoped they liked replacing starter motors. The safety bonus was only 65 dollars a pittance easily covered by one extra or two reloads for next day delivery each week)

1156369 miles is the result. So the actual vehicle itself has done with that engine at least a million one hundred thousand but no more than one million three hundred thousand miles.

When you talk about PTO hours, that throws a massive wrench into my numbers. My figures are OTR. Now with this PTO problem... I have to research it.

If the PTO means sitting still raising a dump bed a hundred feet... Im thinking i should toss all this.

 

I arrived at a similar conclusion. I suspect it's best to be looking for another truck. Those skid plates near the shock mounts did it for me the way you described it.

I don't have anything against old iron million mile trucks as long the rivets and so forth are good. But today's glue and resin million mile trucks? Are you kidding? Whatever happend to the old tradition of building something to last 30 years?

 

Did I miss it, or did you say how much they are asking?

 

Why calculate miles?
Total engine hours tell the whole story.
And it is gone.
Wore out and in need off a rebuild.

 

I think million mile trucks go to chile or Israel to die after another million miles.

I just finished watching a death road show in trucking where it'\s basically a shelf of rock in which they hang a steer or outside tire over 3000 feet of nothing but death now and then.

I know I like mountain work. But that's not for me. I rather run Antigun Pass featured in Fairbanks north.