the kenworth T2000

Biggest problem with the doors and wind noise is that the factory does a terrible job of aligning them correctly when new, and there are DA*MN few dealers that take the time to properly adjust them.

Just moving your door striker plate in/out or up and down is not really an adjustment, you have to remove all of the screws that run up the cowl panel and along the floor, once you remove the cowl panel you can the move the whole door an infinite amount of ways.

I can usually do the whole job for both doors in about an hour and when done I have no more wind noise than any other truck. Funny but I have noticed that the 387 Pete does seem to be closer on their adjustment than KW, even thou they are pretty much the same door.

Just my two cents,

Stan

 

If you were asking me, I have owned 15 KW T2000's over the years. (7) 1999 and ( 2003)

 

Honestly, if you ask me, DRIVER is the BIGGEST part of the fuel mileage equation, not the platform. I have guys with same identical sister trucks, pulling identical loads, trailers, routes that are constantly a half a mile a gallon apart.

Second on my list, is the truck sped'ed correctly to do what you want it to do.

Then comes how aero the truck is,

JMHO,

Stan

 

I was handed a T2000 in '99 to drive for a few months. I had no desire to ever drive it again. Comfort wasn't bad, but doing anything like changing a fuel filter, cleaning the windshield, or other little things was a real pain compared to other trucks I had been around. I could never get the spot mirrors in those elephant ear mirrors to adjust properly. Only about half of it was looking at something besides the side of the truck. I know what the truck looks like, I need to see if some 4 wheeler is hiding out near me. And I never cared for a truck like the T2000 or Cascadia or Pete (whatever number it is that also looks like a T2000) that has cb antenna mounts on the sleeper. For one, there is hardly any OEM coax that is worth a darn, and it is difficult to redo the coax or mount an antenna elsewhere. I guess it was just me. I have known several people that have had T2000's and didn't complain about it. I never considered a T2000 to buy. It was an easy truck to tell a sales guy.."NO".

I am a fan of aero trucks, but the T2 never appealed to me.

 

About the coax: If you unscrew the 4 screws in the kickpanel on the passenger side there will be about 8 holes in the fire wall under the harnesses. Pop one out and you can pull a coax really easy to anywhere on the truck from there. We installed a new coax from the dashboard CB platform out to the rear of the T2000 grab handle (into an outback antenna mount) in under 45 minutes including the solder job for the connectors. WHAT AN IMPROVEMENT! The radio in that truck is a Ranger 2970DX-150 and after replacing the coax it is picking up that crazy mexican broad from down south 4 states away. I bought a 1000' roll of direct bury RG-8X so the columbia and W900L are next. A big part of the performance was the fact that we calculated and measured the coax to be exact for 27.185 mHz (CH 19) based on the coax velocity factor. Here's a handy online app we used: http://www.k5rmg.org/calc/length.html and the coax used: http://www.dxengineering.com/parts/dxe-8x-1000