What Pre Emission Engines Do Owner Operators Like The Most

I wasnt gona grace this thread since ive only been in the seat of a semi for lets see....like 6 months lol. Im 22 kid. But let me tell you something i know for fact, you cannot make a blanket statement like that amd expect someone to take it as the holy scripts. There are so many factors to getting good mpg other then what rpms you shift at. You got tire size, rear gears, number of gears in yur tranny, engine hp, and the foot sitting on the accelerator. IMO i find one lf the biggest factors to be terrain. My little experience driving has been with a c13 acert set to 470 with twins. I got 10 gears turning a 4.10 rear rollin on 22.5s. I role up and down the hills of nebraska with about 73k average of corn or beans and i can guarentee that if i drove and shifted with the rpm points you laid out, then i would never make it to the elevators. I didnt grow up round trucks, i was homeschooled in the city and worked on a family members farm in the summers. He just bought a semi last year. But you know what i did? I got on this forum and called upon the people with thousands and millions of miles under their belts to give me all the advice they could. Mostly it was how to run a little kitty like the c13 in a way that would keep it alive for many miles and continue rollin. Some advice was how to better float gears. But the best advice was how to drive this specific setup to not over work it. For me that is taking it to 1750 sometimes to make the next gear in the higher ranges. This truck eats up 400rpms with every shift and if i shifted up at 13 or 1400rpms for every fear i would be under my turbo and wastin fuel by gear 7.

My advice would be to just ask questions, glean info, and chew it in yur brain for a while. Anyone can regurgitate facts buddy, but not everyone can sit behind the wheel and take gears and get loads to where they need to be. If you aint careful the experienced people in this forum are gonna remember yur name and quit giving out advice to only have brochure facts thrown back in their face by a kid who watched from the passenger seat.

 

Navistar T444E

 

I wish your dad had taught you what punctuation is. #### your stuff is hard to read.

 

Ask any expert on engines. Operating any engine in lower rpm on the hwy will mess up liners and blocks real good.
Even the new super diesels are losing bearings because of low rpm load on hwy, and extended drain intervals.

 

Yeah ill let it go cause it aint worth my time to get you to understand that you still cant make a blanket statement about driving, no matter how many rigs you have been in. Im talking flat ground too. If i shift at 1400 on the flats, loaded, im under my turbo and just killing the engine by gear 7.

 

How much longer is this poll open?