Looking to buy a Kenworth T600

I got my century off of truckpaper.com

You can set your search requirements. Mine even came with my name on it.

I would even go so far as to getting an APU. It saves the idling. When I do idle, I have egr issues.

I've got a century w/ a 14 S 60 in it 13spd. I didn't like it not having the full gauges, but can do do just fine without them. I like the space and room a lot more in my century than a T600 or the W900's I was looking at.

In the end, it came down to finding what I wanted and what the finance companies would work with me on. Some of it based off age and mileage.

I would go for the older N14 engines or else get a 12.7 or 14L Series 60 long before I get a newer Cummins or even a Cat engine. As strong as a Cat is, unless I was looking to go heavy haul, I wouldn't' consider it due to history of poor mileage out of them. That's $15,000 or more I could use annually than the privilege to have a Cat.

 

I am working on the "details",

But as I understand the information NOW, I have a wiring harness for the full guage pack. I only have the "fleet" gages on the truck though.

Armed with that, I am now looking into whether or not I can install a different dash pack into my truck. If I can, I will be putting the "O/O gages" like you are talking. And it should be "plug and play". The connections are there, they just didn't put the full gage pack in.

The biggies that I am REALLY wanting right now are the pyro and the turbo boost gages.

What I have learned is that as soon as you sense/find/determine you have even a slight exhaust leak, GET IT FIXED ASAP. It will lead to turbo/EGR failure. So what SHOULD have been $1000 or less to fix, will end up costing you $5,000 or better.

 

I could be wrong, but I would bet that Freightliner ( as well as the rest ) uses the same wire harness in all of the trucks and only uses what the order calls for. I.E. "fleet" or "all the gauges". I can only imagine how many different harnesses would need to be stocked to conform to all the different options available. I would think it would be a huge nightmare to have so many different harnesses.

 

exactly why I didn't get too concerned about not having the gages in the truck I actually wanted. It should be easy enough to put them in at a later time.

I just have other issues to address right now before gages.