Trying to buy a Kenworth T660

No. No No NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!This is the worst engine ever made. It is not what caterpillar is known for. The DPF system DOES NOT WORK - NO MATTER HOW MUCH TIME/MONEY YOU SPEND ... You will regret ever buying ANY truck with a caterpillar motor with a serial number that starts with SDP ... A good day will be a day you only have to stop twice to do a parked regen and average 5 mpg with less power than a 1974 Ford. This motor also likes to go through crankcase filters like nobody's business and those are about $75 a pop. You will need about one per 1500 miles until you decide to hollow it out. If you get a new dpf it will work marvelously for a whopping 10,000 miles if you are lucky. Then you will need another new dpf.

Do not buy this truck. You will regret ever doing it. Find something else.

 

if I were to guess... you had a bad first hand experience lol

 

Hey bud. There's a cat named Lucar in the Mercer thread that has I believe an 08 T660 with a Cat. Check out his stories. Dang truck like to have bankrupted him. Bad, bad, bad motor.

 

I had a truck equipped with one of these engines and I was lucky to get 5 mpg NO IDLING either. It would spend 1 week in the shop for 3 weeks on the road. Any money I was getting ahead with went directly to the mechanic. I was not able to draw any money as a driver when I owned this truck. All I was doing as moving freight but was not getting ahead at all. The value of this truck is whatever you could get for the scrap metal, minus the cost to tow it to a wrecking yard.

Before I had this truck I had the luxury of driving one of cat's finest motors, the 6nz. I figured it wasn't a bad as people say it is, their sdp engine. IT IS! It has turned me completely off of the entire brand, God help them if they try to enter the engine market again. I will not even consider anything new that they put out. I will take my chances with my zero experience of cummins. At least Rawze has a very good set of videos on how to keep the emissions system clean. With the cat, you don't have a fighting chance.

Don't buy it. Don't even look at it again. Don't buy it even if he gives it to you for one heck of a deal. Maybe pay $1,000, maximum. If it comes with a full tank of fuel and new tires on it.

 

Do not make a mistake investing into cat. Only thing kw a 2008+ should be a Cummins. And possibly avoid the automatic trans

 

Here is a CASCADIA to look at in your $ range http://www.truckpaper.com/listingsdetail/detail.aspx?OHID=5396125