The Descriptive Process

[HuskStihl]

Turbo badness? Needs an eliminator kit.

 

[paccity]

injector pump disassembling itself . pos.

 

[HuskStihl]

Bogus

 

[paccity]

ya need to eliminate the truck.

this is just one of many good times with this truck.

 

[HuskStihl]

this is just one of many good times with this truck.

But it's got an Allison transmission. Gotta be worth the frustrations

 

[northmanlogging]

144xxx miles on a free ferd... few glow plugs, few quarts of trans fluid, and a few batteries, 13 starters(just buy napa and stop worrying) ... still running strong.a

Meanwhile I have at least 3 people telling me how the Duramuck is such a great truck... they've only needed one new engine, and all new injectors, and a new fuel pump, and the brakes quit, and it overheats under load, and the timming belt blew, and, and , and.

I think grand total with oil changes I may have spent about 2k on the crummy, those injectors the durapunk had to replace where 1200 a piece, new motor 10k...

sorry on a rant again...

FORD...

 

[paccity]

the other two trucks are f-800's one with a 5.9 and a ford leyland always run . i did not make the call on the 5500's purchase. but i will on it's replacement.

 

[Gologit]

I wish Cat made a pickup. Or maybe Peterbilt.

 

[northmanlogging]

Kenworth?

 

[Gologit]

Kenworth?

Yeah. A T-800 shrunk down to 3/4 ton size. 4wd of course. With a small Cat engine. Perfect.

 

[Joe46]

Kinda always wished Ford and Cat would have made a deal to put a purpose built engine in the Ford pickup. Although my 01 7.3 has been almost trouble free(knock on my head). The injectors are a Cat design however.

 

[Steve NW WI]

Yeah. A T-800 shrunk down to 3/4 ton size. 4wd of course. With a small Cat engine. Perfect.

Small Cat = Perkins. Good stuff. CAT knows enough to buy someone that can build a decent smaller motor.

 

[lfnh]

pos gm. i have never seen a truck with as many issues as this thing . only 78k on it . this is what i'm dealing with now. i know it's not a great pic but can you see the problem? hint , it lost pwr and quit and was puking diesel.

Thanks for sharing.
Tough question. Not much I recognize in there, so here's a guess


old 5.9 mfi, 160 hp. new solenoid contacts, starter bearings and brushes, 35 bucks. about 31 o&f changes.
no fliippy caps

 

[Metals406]

I'd get a Pete pickup.

 

[northmanlogging]

they made some ferd rangers with a little perkins in em, kinda rare and never a 4x4. And some of the bigger ford industrial stuff had cat motors.

 

[Steve NW WI]

they made some ferd rangers with a little perkins in em, kinda rare and never a 4x4. And some of the bigger ford industrial stuff had cat motors.

Think those were a Mazda diesel??? Not sure though.

Here's one for ya, Bob:

 

[2dogs]

Back around 1985 I had a friend with a Mazda p/u with a diesel. Man that thing was underpowered and slow! Pulling onto the freeway was scary.

 

[paccity]

Thanks for sharing.
Tough question. Not much I recognize in there, so here's a guess
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old 5.9 mfi, 160 hp. new solenoid contacts, starter bearings and brushes, 35 bucks. about 31 o&f changes.
no fliippy caps
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if you look just up from where you wrote on the pic you'll see the screws that hold the injector pump together have all backed out . would not be so bad but it's so buried it's stupid . a lot of stuff came off of that motor to get to what you see there. it runs again to-nite . ready for work monday. see how long till the next thing goes wrong.

 

[Gologit]

if you look just up from where you wrote on the pic you'll see the screws that hold the injector pump together have all backed out . would not be so bad but it's so buried it's stupid . a lot of stuff came off of that motor to get to what you see there. it runs again to-nite . ready for work monday. see how long till the next thing goes wrong.

Ugh. Lousy way to have to spend the week-end.

 

[madhatte]

I guess that's the mixed blessing of having GSA vehicles: I don't have to work on them, but repairs take forever. I just got my truck back after almost 4 weeks downtime between radio work and body work. I can't imagine that any of that should have taken more than a day or two.