New Old Truck

[RockSet N' Grade]

2000 Kenworth t800......finally got my hands on a real truck

[KCfireman]

Nice! T800's are workhorses. They make great trucks for Tenders.

[stuvecorp]

That is nice.Thumbs Up

[Treemow]

Nice truck. Congrats.

[J. Peterson Grading]

Thats Nice. Now I have to buy one... Honey, can.....................

J.

[bobcatexc]

Well look at that cute little truck Rockset treated himself to!! :laugh:

[ARP]

Nice rig! We need the action pics now.

[kreft]

hot diggity!

[RockSet N' Grade]

ARP....I want action too. Need it. Two years ago the previous owner bought the truck for $68k and spent another $25k on the AR500 rock bed. I got it for about 1/3. Needs a little work here and there, but it will sure beat the heck out of a bobtail........that is the hope anyways. Now, where's the work?

[dozerman21]

Nice rig!:drinkup: What engine/HP?

[ARP]

The work is coming- supposedly :rolleyes:. I jest- you've done fine in the past and you will do fine in the future. Just keep thinking optimisically. How are those trucking jobs coming along?

Sounds like you got a killer deal on that truck there. I'll definitely be interested to see how you make out with that rig.

[RockSet N' Grade]

Kitty Cat 430 hp, chalmers suspension..........getting new steer tires friday. the ones on it are mismatched - one is barely legal. just had the butt plate put on with air and two different electrical outlets.........sheesh, it's expensive just sitting there.

[jblawns123]

Wow, now there is a dirt mover, whats the GVW on something like that?

[CAT powered]

8LL trans or what?

[Gravel Rat]

The C-13 Cat isn't too bad you will find with a full load it will be a little slow. I know a contractor that had a T-800 with C-13 power and 430hp he got rid of the truck because it wasn't enough power.

Truck looks good I know you will need a crying towel for the super singles. You don't really want to buy the cheap ones because if you have a wobbler you can't balance them.

One of the trucking outfits I know I said to him don't buy the cheap super singles. Well he didn't listen the tires wouldn't run smooth he ended up going with Bridgestones I said to him told you so and :laugh:

The Chalmers suspension rides fairly decent.

You straight pipe a C-13 the Jake has a decent bark to it :drinkup:

[RockSet N' Grade]

I guess it would've been nice to have more hp.......wanted more, still want more......but this truck had everything on it that i wanted and was in the best condition of all the trucks i looked at........oh well, i have driven a vw bus before, guess i can do it again......

[RockSet N' Grade]

8LL, 72k gvw

[Gravel Rat]

I think you will be fine but if you were pulling a transfer trailer or a tandem axle pup trailer it would be slow.

For what you got for the price you got a good deal. Now you need to add some color to it so the customers remember you.

[Treemow]

The C-13 Cat isn't too bad you will find with a full load it will be a little slow. I know a contractor that had a T-800 with C-13 power and 430hp he got rid of the truck because it wasn't enough power.

Truck looks good I know you will need a crying towel for the super singles. You don't really want to buy the cheap ones because if you have a wobbler you can't balance them.

One of the trucking outfits I know I said to him don't buy the cheap super singles. Well he didn't listen the tires wouldn't run smooth he ended up going with Bridgestones I said to him told you so and :laugh:

The Chalmers suspension rides fairly decent.

You straight pipe a C-13 the Jake has a decent bark to it :drinkup:

430 hp is a lot of hp in a dump truck. Here we rely on the transmission and rear end. Any thing above this hp when put in a bind usually means something is going to break.IMO

[ksss]

That is a sweet truck. Good specs. Good price. Good find RSG.

[dozerman21]

RSG- How many miles on it, and did you have a certain mileage that you didn't want to go over?

[Scag48]

Good looking rig!

[Gravel Rat]

430 hp is a lot of hp in a dump truck. Here we rely on the transmission and rear end. Any thing above this hp when put in a bind usually means something is going to break.IMO

Here a 430hp is low horsepower especially a truck with a C-13 which is a small engine. The Cat 13 is good the C-15 is better it is nice to have 515hp.

Just different ways of spec'ing trucks for different areas.

The way the T-800 is set up is for max payload. Load it up to max gvw you will feel it on any grade. With a 8LL and full gears have to make the gear drops and upshifts carefully with a load. Too bad the truck didn't have a 18spd.

The T-800s are good trucks lots of aftermarket stuff for them if you wanted to p*mp the truck.

[Scag48]

I would agree that 475 horses would definately be nice, but 425 will suffice. My buddy drives a near new T800 that's pushing 525 horses and is an 18 speed, although he runs with a pup, he says he can't run out of juice in that truck if he tried.

[Junior M]

Dam thats nice!

[RockSet N' Grade]

Truck only has 250,000 miles on it, so my thinking is it is a low mile truck. One of the reasons I considered it is that my mechanic knows and works on the truck and the owner is good about lube and maintenance.

[Sunscaper]

Wow, what a nice find! Best of luck with it, she's gorgeous.

[Gravel Rat]

You got a good deal. It probably took a long time to find one.

[KTM]

Nice rig! The guy that does my trucking started to get rid of his high HP trucks a few years ago, he said that the drivers would run them around like sports cars, wasting fuel when they were empty, I went with a driver to show him where to dump a few years back, after he dumped I asked him to run her hard, I could not believe how fast that thing accelerated. I like your box, looks like a skid could dump in there easy.

[stuvecorp]

Yeah, that truck is perfect specs for me. I might vote that truck purchase of the year.

[riverwalklandscaping]

on a side note, why cant they make cars and passenger trucks like they make full size trucks... I mean whens the last time someone with an f150 said, 'it's only got 250,000 miles on it'