Detroit million mile overhauls
:D It's pretty common knowledge that a Cat engine can go a million to a million-and-a-half miles before an inframe overhaul. Anyone know if a Detroit can go that long? 8)
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I just had rods & mains put in my DD S60. Date code on the bearings 10/95, miles on Odometer 995,329 Runs very good.
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With proper maintenance ANY engine can. |
If it was bought brand new and taken care of by you sure. Would I buy a truck with 600,000 miles and be sure it would go a million. Maybe if it had the maintainence records with it.
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I drove more than one 60 Series that had 1 Million on the clock before it had an Overhaul done toit. Called how the driver treated it and how the shop worked on it made a difference to it. No workon it and yes they will need work done way before they should however one company I was with changed oil every 10-12K and got 1-1.3 million out of every motor in the fleet before even dropping the pans for bearing jobs all in how you treated them.
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I don't know exact numbers, but my dad rebuilt his in 2003 and his truck is a 92. Never been touched before that.
His truck did at LEAST 120,000 miles per year. The first 5 years of its life it was a team truck as well. So I'm going to guess at least 1.6 million miles. When it eventually went, it was a small coolant leak in a liner. Everything else was fine, but I guess the original owners didn't change the coolant often enough. Otherwise it would probably still be running. |
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