BUYING YOUR FIRST TRUCK !! Mistakes NOT to make

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  @Wicked_RotF30 · 1 year ago

  4 years is all? Sheesh. Ive been in the industry since 2014 and havent pulled the trigger on my own truck yet.

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• PU

  @pugmalley · 1 month ago

  Cat didn't really quit making new motors for the trucks. They just quit making them for new trucks and continue to make them for older trucks that need a motor.

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• JO

  @joeferreira7382 · 3 years ago (edited)

  How is it going JUSTIN ,<br>Do NOT forget to pull the plugs on the TRANSMISSIONS and the rear ENDS and see how much METAL is on the MAGNET , Do NOT forget to JACK the FRONT end up and take a BAR and put it in the rim and lift it up and down and see if the KINGPINS are wore out or NOT &nbsp;tie rods &nbsp;and so forth &nbsp;, Put some OIL in a cup go have it checked , &nbsp; Crawl underneath and &nbsp;SHAKE your drive lines up and down see if they are wore out , &nbsp;I can go on and on , The more you find the more the money drops off the truck ,<br> You let them know what you found that you have to replace and fix and say this is my offer take it or leave it

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• JU

  @justinpaone2227 · 3 years ago

  I think paccar owns Peterbilt and Kenworth which is why the new trucks are so similar.

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• TO

  @tonytsquared5576 · 3 years ago

  Back in the early 70&apos;s when I was a teenager growing up on a hay farm my dad bought a 53 Mack Thermodyne with a blown Cummins engine that had been sitting for a couple of years. Dad had been a mechanic in the Air Force. I helped him rebuild the engine and we had a cab-over for hay delivery that was classified as a farm vehicle that I could drive at 16 years old. Dad had never rebuilt a Cummins but he followed the factory service manual. It had 3 gear shifters so it had 24 forward gears. I ended up hauling freight with it as a summer job in Florida when I was in college. That job motivated me to get my Business Degree. Good pay but it was hard work for 12+ hours a day. And now I am in semi-retirement and driving CDL Hot-shot three to four days a week.

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• VI

  @vicpetrishak7705 · 3 years ago

  I had a MaxForce engine in my truck , backed up real quick and hit the brakes it rolled of my pickup truck bed at the scrapyard .

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• DO

  @DonCorr · 2 years ago

  Freight liner has a great automatic but I still prefer manual

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• GA

  @garylowrey9770 · 3 years ago (edited)

  As a diesel mechanic for 10yrs I can tell you that paccar is a sister company of cummins almost everything is interchangable with the Cummins and their good engines not the most powerful but their great work horses and more affordable

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• JD

  @jda72 · 3 years ago

  The maxforce engine was made by Navistar and only found in International trucks, the Paccar engine is made by Paccar obviously and a better engine than the maxforce which was pretty much a POS. I am not a big Cummins fan but if I was buying a truck these days I would probably go with Cummins mostly because if you are somewhat mechanically inclined you can do a lot of work on it yourself and Cummins will supply the knowhow free with &nbsp;their Quickserve account and like you said there is a lot of shops that can work on them.

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• RI

  @RiddleMethis-s3i · 1 year ago

  Oil bypass filters help.

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• ST

  @StarzCinemaBeats · 3 years ago

  These guys on fb are smoking angel dust. Tryna sell an old truck with high miles and salvage title for 40k

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• TH

  @thehillbillyhermit7681 · 3 years ago

  EGR= Exhaust Gas Recirculation

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