6 Cylinder? Turbo? Manual?

[TCO]

I am sure I will make some of you angry coming in here expecting to see a sweet GP but I have nothing like it. My dad and I work at a Caterpillar dealership and a couple months ago a Walgreens truck came in and they found out it had a broken crank. It sat for a couple weeks and my dad, who runs the truck shop, told them they need to come get it out of they lot. They asked him if the company wanted to buy it and he said they didn't but he offered them $2500 for it and I went in on it. Now we own a 2006 International 8600 with a Cat C13with 600,000 miles. The nice thing is the tires and brakes were put on in the middle of may and it showed up where we work in the first week of june. It also had a half a tank of fuel in it. We could have make our money just off of that stuff.

The original plan was to just rebuild the engine and call it good but we pulled the oil pan and found out that one of the crank bolts broke and when it did it messed up the block which also messed up the crank. We found a used C13 at a place an hour or so from us. It supposedly had Jake Brakes which makes the truck alot easier to sell so we bought it for $7000. When it showed up it didn't have jakes so my dad called and they sent us them for free. They had them advertised for $1500. I was pretty impressed with that.

Last night we started on the truck and we had the engine ready to tear out at midnight last night. This morning we got the engine tore out and we got everything switched over and we put the new engine in at about 4 o'clock today. We got it all bolted in and called it a day. Hopefully tomorrow we can get most everything else done so we can at least get it home and out of the shop at work.

Looking online the cheapest one we found like it was like $32k and so far I think we have $10500 into this one and we really don't have any major purchases left on it. I will try to get a couple pictures of it tomorrow when we go back out to work on it. This thing is a pita to work on though. 3/4 of the engine is inside the cab because it is such a short truck. From the front bumper to the back it is just 23 feet.

[matt5112]

Sounds like you're about to make a killing.

Great work!

[TheOtherNick]

I have worked on one big truck, like it a lot more than light duty stuff.

[Scottydoggs]

i used to drive a pete with a nice cat 375 turned up all the way, that truck flew. (well as fast as a roll off truck can go)

i heard that cat pulled out of the trucking market due to all the emissions crap they were forced to follow, any truth to that?

i'd like to get a rv with a cat but i cant seem to find any new ones with a cat in it, so im thinking its true.

[redlinepontiac]

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[TCO]

i used to drive a pete with a nice cat 375 turned up all the way, that truck flew. (well as fast as a roll off truck can go)

i heard that cat pulled out of the trucking market due to all the emissions crap they were forced to follow, any truth to that?

i'd like to get a rv with a cat but i cant seem to find any new ones with a cat in it, so im thinking its true.

Very true. Cat got out of the on the road engines a couple years ago. They are coming/have come out with a truck of their own though. It is a partenership between them and Navistar(International) I don't think going with them is the smartest thing but who knows. The truck is called the CT660 and its mostly based on the construction market. Our company ordered one with pretty much every option right when Cat offered them but Cat told us that we had to wait for a few months to get the leather seats and stuff so the owner of our dealership told them to get their sh++t in a group and to let him know when he could order a truck that they offered. I guess we have one sold already but no one will say who bought it. I have been told that we will be getting one in sept but who knows. I would really like to see it though.



edit...... the next truck we do will be like a pete 379 or something where you can actually get at the engine. On this one you have to pull the dog house and get inside the cab just to pull the valve cover off. PITA

[Scottydoggs]

man that sucks no more cats for real.

its always nice to work on a pete, leave the block in and just get in there and rebuild it right in the truck still, the good old days. not that i work on them, just seen it done a bunch of times, if not for the weight of the parts it looks easy to work on.

good luck with the sale when your done, looks like you guys stepped in sh!t with that one.

when you done i think we need a 3 gear down shift with the jake screaming! and we all know straight pipes add 5 mph to the top speed, well it did to the mack granite we had, i hated that truck and it was new lol the pete i drove went well over a 100 mph and i wasn't driving it at those speeds, but the pipes let it breath for sure. we also had a 77 autocar with a Detroit in it and 4 inch pipes, that thing would shake paint off the cars next to you on the highways when you hit the jake, and scare the crap out of little old lady's lol that engine blew up while i was driving it, broke the cam in 3 places, i went for the next shift and there was nothing there,(a smooth death) time was up for the old girl.

[TCO]

Somehow my old man always seems to step in sh+t and come out smelling like a rose. Hopefully this will be another one of those. Having jakes make it a heck of alot easier to sell, especially with farmers. This one will probably end up on a farm because my dad has already had a couple farmers call asking about it. It is super short so it would be pretty good for getting in and out of fields.

[JoshsGTP]

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[TCO]

Well yesterday at about 4 we started it up for the first time. Everything went pretty well on it. We still have to wire up the jakes, put the bumper back on, put a new stack on it and figure out the cooling fan. It runs non stop and when we hook the computer up to it it says it is off.

Its amazing how simple it is to change things on the trucks as far and parameters. We bumped the idle up from 600 to 700 rpm with just a click. Need more power? Hook up and rerate it to something else.

Here are some pictures.




This shows just how tight it is under the hood

This is the engine we pulled out

Here is a picture of our wheel dyno