One more question is do you think an older truck would have more down time than an emissions truck?
What is the best newer semi truck to work on yourself?
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Old trucks are worth scrap price. You can’t trust any previous work claimed to been done to them. Certainly wouldn’t pay extra because a bunch of work had just been done.
My opinion is only pay for the condition of the cab and frame and just plan on replacing everything else.
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Buy a brand new truck.
IMO there is no in between!!!!!
I’ve been driving my $13k truck for 7 or 8 years now. And just bought its eventual replacement for $8k
I did 145k miles this year with 0 breakdowns. Well I did have a couple of flats but nothing mechanical to speak of. 1.5m miles
New to me truck is a 94 truck with less than 200k original miles on it.
Current truck
Future truck
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what you know how to work on should determine what you look at if your plan is to diy repairs.
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There’s benefits to a new truck or a couple year old truck .. but I not one of the guys in that marketLast edited: Jan 10, 2024
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are you wanting to be able to rebuild the engine yourself or just everything else?
A cat is pretty easy to do. a cummins a little harder, Detroit I dunno. and this is with Information available to a shade tree mechanic. I rebuilt my cat with information from YouTube or the internet. I'm not having as much luck finding the same for my 2015 cummins.
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Confident i can fix most including an in frame but I’m definitely doing a relative compression test to see if cylinders are firing correctlyRideandrepair Thanks this. -
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