CM871 kickin my Butt

[RustyWood]

(05-27-2020 )dhirocz Wrote:  Odd. Other than the year we have basically the same truck. Been a pretty good truck to me, just got to take care of it.

Definitely keep up with the gear oil. I ate the valve cam at 685k. Took some advice from the trusted members of the board here, and most importantly, used common sense and questioned every aspect of the convential owner operators business model and I've ended up doing ok. Took a truck that wasn't very profitable, rolled up my sleeves and managed to do well with it.

I've listened to some trash out there from KR and Pittsburgh Power and read what there is out there to read and now that I've been doing this for awhile, it's easy to look back and realize that these people are full of it. In the grand scheme of things, they aren't much different than Cummins, the stealership, the EPA, etc...just coming up with a different excuse to make a few bucks off you.

What I need to know that I can't figure out on my own I can ask here and trust that I get good answers. Ignore the rest of the Riff Raff.

Excellent, thanks for any advice on the T2000, I wanted this truck from the space the cabin has cause I plan my wife will be traveling with me one day when she retires and hell I can keep a 30" cooler between the armrests, fridge was gone. Over the last year and a half owning this big truck, I've pretty closely read and watched a lot of what Rawze has put out there to find he's a straight shooter and really, really knows his stuff and easily built my confidence to get all the education I can from him. I hope to meet Master Jedi one day ! :)

As an O'O, you start getting lot's and lot's of advice, and you really do have to sift through what's good and not good. Tried talking to my friend about KR, and he still feels after listen to it for 12 years he says, he thinks there's value from so many call ins they have, but I have built more trust in this forum and far all I know, call in's could be setup's, I don't even have an XM radio, I'd rather listen to music when driving, hell I don't even have a CB.

My truck does seem pretty happy above 1400, so I cruise about 1450 at about 63-65mph and tap off the cruise to the slightest little mound going over a road and hold it, let the truck drop speed instead of letting it mash the pedal down. I swear everyone passes me, :) I rarely pass someone. Talking to a long nose driver in our company, he told me he budget's about $2200. a week in fuel, and I about swallowed my tongue, I'm never even close to that much.

Thanks Rawze for the input on my program, it may not be optimal but at lease it sounds from what you said, I'm not in any immediate fear I'm damaging my engine. I don't need more power, I'd rather have reliability as I don't drive fast.