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Cen IL | Depends on how heavy your load and what kind of terrain. I have one in a T450 that does great job pulling 80,000 lbs on the flat prairie. If you have hills, find more cubes. Never had any trouble with the engine, but it's never lugged and always plugged in if its below 45 or so. Gets 8 mpg loaded one way. |
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Manila, Ar | i had a freightliner truck with a 3176. ......never had a minutes trouble with it..........started really good, didn't use any oil, was a little short on power, but i considered that a good thing, not alot speeding going on.............. It will work fine for you...........:) |
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West Tennessee | We currently have 2 of them and have had for about 10 years. The engines have given basically zero problems. One will not hold exhaust gaskets but the other one never has a problem?? The motors will NOT set any speed records and if you load them up much at all you can get complaints from drivers about speed up hills (we have a lot of those here, not mountains but still pretty good grades). As the owner and not the driver I have no complaints. Our next motors will be higher hp just because I do get tired of the "comments". We do push 90 & 100k a lot also though. I always thought lower hp would stop us from tearing anything else up but this fall we managed to twist out a driveshaft on the last load. First time for that. Not sure what happened there but pretty sure excessive horsepower wasn't the problem. :-)
Edit to add side story. Like I said drivers are always commenting about the lack of power/speed of these two trucks. I accidentally got behind one when he didn't know it this past fall. Paced it at 65mph all the way through a 55mph zone (inc. up hills, and this is the truck that the speedo works on) with what turned out was a 96k load. Told him later any speeding tickets were on him and wasn't sure why the comments for lack of speed all the time. They talked like later that sometimes it does better than others. Whatever.
Edited by BHTN 1/9/2012 09:56
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| I have a 3176 in a 1993 truck set at 350HP. I thought the 1993 was great until I bought a 1996 with a 475HP 12.7L Detroit. But the only difference the extra 125HP makes on a 30 mile trip with an 80,000 lb load is about 20 seconds. If you are not going to be pulling doubles or a tri-ax with 100,000 lbs, then a 3176 will work fine. As far a reliability, I haven't had as good of luck with mine. It started getting fuel into the oil a few years ago, but the Cat shop couldn't find the source of the leak, so I just changed the oil more often. Then two years ago I found that fuel was getting into the coolant as well, so now we are just using it as a backup truck until a cylinder liner o-ring fails from the diesel contaminated coolant. |
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Northern CA | More like the c12 |
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3176 cat's any good?
