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.