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BOBWhite

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  1. The wiki section is messed up for me too. All dead links it seems
  2. Shame its a single axle but looks like a clean truck! Is that shift knob for a 9 speed? It looks like its a 12 or more speed knob and with the amount of lines going to it.
  3. What Year did they go to all electronic E7? The one Im looking at has the Inline pump
  4. Been seeing a Mack ch613 parked by my house for the last couple of months now and Im wondering if I should go ask about it. It's a 1996 with a 13 speed Mack transmission not sure on miles or any of that. With the price of fuel a more fuel efficient truck would be nice, but not sure if that would balance out the $1000 a year for tag that we don't have to pay with our other truck. What price should it be worth? What are some things I should look for? Ive never owned an E7 before so what do I need to know? Thanks!
  5. Its a great motor but Ive heard bad things about the later ones with the 6 individual injection pumps (forgot what that was called) I don't know much about the newer ones but the old ones were great motors. A rebuild at only half a million is kinda odd but depending on what it did before that could be normal. The big problem with Macks is that the parts price, and service Is almost as bad as Cat these days, especially since Volvo took over so keep that in mind.
  6. Yeah for me if it doest have blow-by and it has good oil pressure leave it alone. In my unprofessional opinion bearings don't need to be replaced unless it's knocking. Ive seen bearings come out of million mile motors look new so as long as you use good oil and filters I say keep running em
  7. Right now it pays more to be on welfare and WIC than working 14+ hours a day for $10 an hour. Have enough kids and the government will take care of the rest of it, raise them up to be good lazy communists and repeat the cycle to ruin a nation. Times are about to get tougher
  8. Wouldn't it be cheeper in the long run to do the whole engine at once than just the bottom end? Most in-frame kits come bearings, liners, pistons, and all so why not just get a whole new engine while you still can
  9. Went and saw the old Mack today. Uncle did a real good job of vacuuming all the mouse nests out of it and repaired a lot on it. Be nice to have it now with fuel being $5 a gallon and all. She looks rough but at least she's being used.
  10. $2,300 is too much for a bargain for me. Its worth it but I don't need it.
  11. True but our semi with the cat 1693 gets about that on a good day and only has 300 horse power. And now that fuels so expensive Ive polished everything up and parked it so even if I can't drive it I can still look at it.
  12. Yeah $70,000 sounded like a lot then but now it'd be a bargain!
  13. You must get rain there if you have those fat tires on your sprayer there, ours and all the other one's around here have the skinny and tall tires. Nice stainless steel tank too, so much better than the plastic crap ones. How much weight you hauling when everything full and loaded?
  14. This guy in my town does a bob white quail call every time he see's me so that's what I named everything online
  15. that's about what would have guessed. cat paints them gold for a reason
  16. https://www.bigiron.com/Lots/CaterpillarEngineServiceManuals I might regret posting this but if these go cheep I might have struck gold! Anyone know how much these are when they were new? Thanks
  17. They're not bad I just don't understand why you'd want to split the low gears if you're ever going to go on the highway with hills.
  18. Update: $12,000 with 4 days to go. A lot less than I'd thought it'd be but maybe there all watching and waiting. And of course the lucky ones down under can still go and pick one up brand new
  19. Are you looking for a 5 speed manual or automatic? finding a manual transmission clutch and flywheel for these engines in North America might be costly.
  20. wow that's a lot of info! Thats time and money well invested in my opinion! And I know that $40 isn't that bad when your considering that it might take 10 grand in parts to restore it, but I just really like reading these manuals and it sucks that the BMT wiki links are mostly broken (I blame Volvo). from what I remember the truck still had its manual but the mice made it into a biohazard. that's why I wish this worked.
  21. You could try bigiron or one of those other auction sights if you want to gamble. Restored truck can bring a lot of money sometimes on that sight but often time's the Peterbuilts are the only ones that get attention. Good luck
  22. thanks man I checked them out but $40 for my engine manuals a bit much for me. I mean if I used it everyday it would be invaluable but I'm a novice so I won't use it that much. Im mainly looking out for downloadable pdf's that are cheep or free.
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