CM2250, fuel leak mystery, please help!!

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(02-01-2018 )JMBT Wrote:  ...

Sorry for the rant! To answer your question.....no faith in the CM2250 or 2350..... or really anything after the N14.

I will take a 871 over anything older for the fuel efficiency gains alone. The gains far outweigh long term any higher maintenance costs if you take good care of the engine.

anything newer than this has zero gains in efficiency, but only has higher maint. costs and therefore is less profitable.

As far as them being "junk" -- ALL BRANDS OF ENGINES now being produced are like this or worse. All the engine makers have figured out one thing. Sell engines designed purposefully to be perpetually sick and keep the money flowing back towards the manufacturer non-stop. Cummins, paccar, max-force, detroit,... they are all like this now. Pick your poison, but only learning to work on it yourself is your only defense against this any more.