Frieghtliner century classic: question

Century's were my favorite. I liked the way they felt.

 

Not sure of your intended business model, No Def will rule out Cali and Some port work.

If you are going no DEF, I would encourage you to go no DPF also. Just to eliminate the headaches/maintenance

I do not think the open market has figured out how to make the EPA2007 (DPF) truck truly reliable yet. They have evolved EGR equipped motors to be mostly functional and legal.

 

In common terms:

Pre-EGR is 2003 and before, potentially a few from 2004.
EGR is 2004 to 2007 may be a few from early 2008.
DPF = 2008 through 2010
SCR/DEF = 2011 to current.

Need to check the engine assembly tag to see what year spec the engine is.

If you start looking at gliders that's a whole different Pandora's box.

 

As I recall, Detroit put egr on their engines in late 2002. I may be wrong but I don’t think there were many if any in Trucks with it till the 2003 model year. The egr was a minor nuisance compared to what followed. Not terribly expensive. I can’t remember the amount, maybe $400. I recall a Guy complaining about replacing 2 within a years time. Under warranty but still causing grief. I bought a pre LoNox 98 12.7 in a 99 Classic. Jan 2000 was the deadline for lonox. The Century was good. Only real issue I recall was headlights burning out, once one went out, the other would always follow within a week. Lol. Heard that many times. Word was replace both when one goes bad. They got .5 mpg better than the Classic. They were less than the Classic. Classic held its resale a bit better. Especially after so many Centuries we’re built. Better mpg’s, the trade off was everything was pretty tight under the hood. Might cost more Labor wise. Definitely a money maker like the FLD was, but with even better mpg’s. 2003 and 2004 Freightliner Chassis got better, but the Engines got worse. It’s too bad. 2000-2010 would have produced the best Trucks ever built. They were, except for the engines.

 

There was 2003/4 FL,Pacar,With 00/01 detroits. Fleets and OO pre bought engines way ahead of time to avoid emissions. I've seen factory 03 Pete with 99 detroit factory installed. It happened.

 

Absolutely. At the same time sales were down. Plenty of unsold inventory. Lot of excess engines, My titled 01 is a 2000 in Freightliners system. The engines a 99. The Truck sat at the factory and then on the Dealers lot. Previous Owner got a great deal. He paid $89k for what was originally a $110k Truck. It was the last of 5 84’ Limited Editions Neehly Freightliner in Nashville had on front row display Trucks weren’t selling, too many late model Repos for half the price of new.

 

There was no Freightliner Century Classic, that’s two different trucks. There was a Century Signature Series.
The Century was an aerodynamic truck, the Classic was a square nose FLD.
No Century model Freightliner had a DPF. The Cascadia model was brought in for that reason to replace the Century.
The Columbia was made with a DPF up until DEF fluid was introduced, so 2009/2010 was its last year. It was a also aerodynamic.
The Classic was made with DPF, discontinued also around 2009/2010.