Paccar engine in a Peterbilt

nickysc

nickysc

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We are looking at upgrading some trucks. Peterbilt offers a Paccar engine. This is new to me. Anybody know anything about this engine.:huh:
 
nickysc said:
We are looking at upgrading some trucks. Peterbilt offers a Paccar engine. This is new to me. Anybody know anything about this engine.:huh:
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Not much, my trucks are older, pre paccar engines, but I thought that the newer mediums had 6 and 8 liter Cummins rebranded as Paccar, and the class 8's were getting a new Paccar 12.9? motor.
 
we have 2 Macks we are wanting to up grade , (04's) I remember the old Peterbilts from the mid 80's. Things seemed to stay together better on them. The Sterlin's we have now are falling apart @ 4yrs old. Hoping the Peterbilts were still as rugged as they were n the past. Detroit engines have been good till now, electronic nightmare. Our trucks live a rough life lots off road miles and heavy loads
 
nickysc said:
we have 2 Macks we are wanting to up grade , (04's) I remember the old Peterbilts from the mid 80's. Things seemed to stay together better on them. The Sterlin's we have now are falling apart @ 4yrs old. Hoping the Peterbilts were still as rugged as they were n the past. Detroit engines have been good till now, electronic nightmare. Our trucks live a rough life lots off road miles and heavy loads
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Volvo bought Mack in 2000 from Renault. There are 2 reasons to buy a company. One is brand recognition and the other is distribution. Volvo got both with Mack purchase, The trucks were pretty much left alone other than installing Volvo power plants early on. The 04 models were tweener trucks so some issues were there. Volvo does now offer much improved trucks with state of the air after treatment exhaust systems. If you have a need for a D13H or D16H engine the performance will blow your socks off.
I am a bit bias here but hey I'm a company guy.
 
Don't care for auto transmissions much. But that's coming from someone who has a stick in my daily driver pickup.
If you're off road a lot, I would especially want the manual transmission. soon, all brakes will be disc
 
Mack's are good too. I have 3 of them, '98, '01, '03, 427 E's....electronic injector problems with one, the other 2 nothing.
there's 28K hours on the '98.
 
We offer both auto and stick but there is nothing like a 9 or 13 speed Road Ranger trans in my opinion. Smooth shift, easy to maintain and easy to rebuild. Keep the clutch adjusted and oil in it and drive it like you rented it.:grin:
 
Oldschool, I used to be a Mack man. These last Macks have so much plastic in the interior, dash, door handles, etc. they fell apart on rough roads, our Mack dealers are not real strong in our area, Freightliner is strongest, you just don't see as many Macks in the woods any more.

Mark, there are some test results comeing from Alabama, on dump trucks wit auto transmitions that are looking good. I have never drove 1, nor have I seen in the woods. Claims are easy start offs, low drive train problems, etc...
 
OldSkool said:
We offer both auto and stick but there is nothing like a 9 or 13 speed Road Ranger trans in my opinion. Smooth shift, easy to maintain and easy to rebuild. Keep the clutch adjusted and oil in it and drive it like you rented it.:grin:
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I understand, some drive it like they stole it
 
With all this talk about trucks...... I miss my trucking days. :smt089
 
no doubt auto trans have come a long way, I have little experience with them, own none, but friend has redi mix business and has them in his mixer trucks, not much problems. But Like oldskool says.. the manuals are a known beast. I guess you have to look at the way you are going to use them and go from there. Buy a couple of each and let me know how it goes :grin:
 
I still have my CDL, I can't drive after dusk anymore = night blindness. :smt021.

So I said f-it and retired. :smt001
 
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