Tri axel dump truck question about hours on engine.

If the oil sample report and the blowby test are good then I wouldn't be too concerned about a higher number of hours.

 

I have a l9000 concrete mixer truck (now a local daycab) with 196k and 37000 hours we put another 50k miles and idk how many hours on it. Took that m11 out and replaced with a 3406 cat….best thing I ever did. The m11 had lots of blowby and would get pretty thirsty for oil around 7k usually would take 2-3 more gallon to get to 10k. No one good reason for the swap, just a bunch of small problems that added up to a big one. I have a buddy that had a w9 dump truck with 67k hours on a 3406e… believed to have been inframed once but no one knows and was all around a great truck for him. I know of 2 other trucks that didn’t make it 2
To 20k hours. Largely depends on maintenance and some luck in my opinion Bottom line I wouldn’t be that worried about the hours….buy the otherwise best truck that fits your needs.

 

I think it depends on what generation of m11 you’re looking at here’s my experience with them
That particular m11 was a turd it was a 95 regular celect and no one would touch it. It was set at 370 and 1450 I think. The biggest problem with it was over 1500 rpm it had nothing even though it would run to 2000….i still think it had some type of fleet program that was causing this but two different shops hooked up to it and said no it’s wide open. I know of 2 trucks around here with m11 celect plus and they seem to be respectable but I’ve never driven them. I have driven a fl classic with an ism11 and I was impressed (not 14 liter power) but pulled great. Those little engines are 1000-1500 pounds lighter than a 3406 so that’s decent a plus. I’m guessing I will get hassled over this but the 3406 that replaced my m11 actually gets better mileage doing the same work in less time.

 

1.2mill on a dump truck….holy ####
Is it a converted road tractor…if so how well was it built. Just thoughts
A c12 will work good a buddy of mine has them in roll off trucks I think they were lightly tuned and run around 450…I would consider owning one. The m11 being a celct plus might have better luck than I did with the 95. One problem I see with that vintage of Cummins is decent replacement injectors are tough to find.

 

You are buying a truck that needs a motor, period

not hard to do miles/hours to get average speed, dumps do nothing but start, stop and turn