hello everyone, as the title says im in the market for a new truck and have my eyes on two of them. I currently own a 2007 freightliner coronado with a 14l series 60 egr 13 speed and 3.55 rears. So far this truck does well on flats but terrible on hills. It being a egr engine im avg 5 mpg. So the two trucks i have in mind are
2004 freightliner coronado with cat 6nz c15 550 and 3.42 rears with a 13 speed transmission and 22lp
2006 freightliner coronado with cat c15 550 with 3.91 rears with 18 speed and 22lr
Im mostly pulling 48 ft flatbed loads 80k gross from houston to the north east or to west coast where the steepest grade is about 8%. Crusing speed in my current truck is about 70mph. Which of the two would be better for my needs? Thanks in advance
Deciding on buying new truck
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by alex2328, May 23, 2018.
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Both of the truck's you mentioned are egr. 391 will pull better but the cat will work at low rpm 70 is the reason for some of the low mpg
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Socal Xpress and magoo68 Thank this.
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So simple to just remove the egr. Everyone does it and engines a nice trouble free high mileage motor. That’s crazy to just sell the whole truck for something as simple as a egr delete
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Dial it down a notch (63mph?) and the numbers will shoot right up.
I'm at 7.5-8mpg with up/down PA/NY mountains with cruise pegged at 63mph AAAAANNNNDDD.... I never hit 80K Lbs gross -
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How do i know for sure about them not having an egr valve because in the pictures it doesnt seem like it? Ill be keeping the 07 so one truck with egr would be enough.
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