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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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3176 cat's any good?
