Can you swap a engine legally?
Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by Swift09, Oct 17, 2019.
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In the states some of them may have a little different standard but I think most of them do something similar to here in Pennsylvania.
To be clear if you have a truck that you want to make into a glider then the truck has to be reconstructed. That means that you're going to switch a cab.
The thing is that when you have a truck that is from the manufacturer then the cab and the frame Vin match as it should, because that is an assembled vehicle as it is from the factory. When you put a cab on a different frame even if it was the same year truck, you now have reconstructed it.
The state of Pennsylvania requires that you take photographs of everything that you do and from all sides when it's finished Etc and then you apply to the state and you send them your information on each Vin from the cab and from the frame.
Then they will send you back a reconstructed title. This is different than a salvage title. If you had a salvage vehicle that was repaired and recertified it would have a reconstructed title also because now that vehicle also is considered rebuilt or remanufactured.
In Pennsylvania when you have a reconstructed title for your reconstructed vehicle the title ends in the letter R. If you have a glider truck in the state of Pennsylvania it will end with the letter R.
Also let's say that your vehicle was a Kenworth W900. As far as your title goes and the state of pennsylvania, that vehicle no longer exists. Pennsylvania will send you Pennsylvania reconstructed title for special vehicle number whatever whatever but it's no longer that same title to your vehicle.
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They stopped selling them to individual LLC’s, but they’re only authorized to sell it to certified glider chassis manufacturers. That’s why you can buy them from Fitz and Kustom, but not straight from KW directly.RubyEagle Thanks this. -
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