Cabovers

Now he may just have offended both!

We used to work with a Welshman , if we wanted to get under his skin we would get someone to say , "you Englishmen are all the same".

 

they all look the same...... sitting on the wrong side of the cab,lol
just kidding Scaniaman.

 

No , that would be the right side.

 

I think that left is right and right is............not right.

 

Hello, I have a 94 international cabover. I have a 460 N14 celect. I pull a 53' cattle pot and am getting horrible fuel economy. I have pressure tested air to air and other little things. I'm looking to get a lot better fuel mileage out of this engine. If anyone could let me know anything to do to get it out of a n14 celect. Thanks.

 

Listen, there are allot of factors involved in fuel ecconomy. It's not always the engine influencing your fuel ecconomy, all though, it can be a major factor in it. If you say that you've checked the engine's air to air system and it's good, you might want to check your fuel pressure delivered to the injectors too. Air intake obstruction and injector/s performance and compression ratios is a major factor in how eficint is the fuel being oxidized/burned in the cyllinder.

Anyway, another thing to be cosidered is your final transmission ratio, your differential ratio and tires sise too, cause this is a big factor in determining the engine RPM at cruising speed.

You don't want to go over 1400 RPM at cruising speeds cause the engine is burning allot of fuel at higher RPMs unnecessarly.

The biggest thing is the style of your driving. When and how you shift gears and how you use the throtle.

You might want to take in consideration the type of trailer you pull, how heavy the loads, type of roads and relief youre driving on, weather conditions especially the wind, etc.

And after you take all of this information in consideration, then you can determine if you're getting bad fuel mileage cause there's something wrong with the truck, or the driver needs to adjust his driving habbits.

I hope that this helps!

Good luck!


PS: What are you considering bad fuel mileage? Numbers please!

 

this one is really interesting truck , bit unusual , high cab , automated gearbox , full air suspension , small differentials,alloy rims,disc brakes , all things non present here.....here most off road scania 6x4 tractors are on spring suspension


this guy run all axles on truck and trailer on same wheels ( 385/65r22.5 michelin xzy3 on 11.75x22.5 rims with 120mm offset) he say that bring him 5% in fuel economy and 350kg in payload

i was interested in problems with traction he says as long he is on hard no problem, off road in mud it is like 4x2 , he says tires are worn faster but since 385 are cheap he says that he save some money as well in tire expenses

also scania did approve him to use 385 single tires on drive axles with 9t capacity per axle


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeU0U052Dm4&feature=feedu

 

I do not know why, really I'm not sure, it is related with aerodinamics... LOL, but "cow movers" trucks all have poor mpg. My client tows cattle pot with Volvo FH (D12D engine) and he clames about 45-50 l/100 km. Seems to me becouse he drive to farms, villages with low average speed, on bad pavement.....

 

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLUmmbh0ZVM&feature=youtube_gdata_player


Nicely produced ...........