Color of Semi Trucks motors, Broken down on the side of the road.

Sounds like some bad luck for the Cats. You have yourself a great cat motor.

 

IMO, it has alot to due with preventive maint, the drive it till it breaks attitude just doesnt cut it. When a drive comes in and says something isnt right, or doesnt feel right, might be time to check it out a little bit closer.

Another thing, right now with the way money is going, sometimes ya just have to drive it till it breaks and hope the money is there to fix it.

 

Cats and Cummins are yellow (from factory). Detroits are usually a shade of green. Rebuit motors can be any color the owner wants it to be.

Color doesnt mean squat to why the truck is on side of road. Usually it is because some one was practicing deferred maintenance and it finally caught up with them.

You take care of your rig and it will for the most part take care of you too.

 

Not saying there has never been a yellow one, but the only colours I have seen on Cummins are red (predominantly), black and beige.


Oh yeah, never Ford blue.

 

usually you will find cats are a bright shade of yellow
a detroit is pale green
cummins are a bit different--they used to all be beige--now also there are black ones with red tops and all red ones
volvo are bit harder to tell cause most of them are used for boat anchors
and the same applys for mercedes
detroit did make a silver one--but it would be harder to find
i guess you could paint them any colour--but i believe the only one i saw painted other than a factory colour was a pos for sale on ebay

on show trucks--yes you may find other colours--painted to match truck

 

Boy can tell who the youngster are.

Cummins and CAT both made white colored engines as well.

 

I've seen plenty of white Cats. One of my favourite trucks of all time had a white 3408.

 

ha ha

I'll take a 3408 in white please....

 

My 78 KW has a white 3408B