C 7 oil pan
About 3 years ago I posted a picture of my badly corroded oil pan on my C7 Cat. Well back then I removed as much rust as I could without taking the pan off and coated it with a epoxy product from an a...
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I was referencing the Fleetwood Factory in South Carolina.
Also I saw the pan on our when we were having the oil changed in Decatur Indiana, after the Factory had fixed some items and before taking it back to Dealer, the biggest mistake in our lives to correct one of their mistakes and they wrecked it.
Sir,
The 3126 is very close to the C-7 with some changes. I know all about the C-7 and when it went into service. Our coach an '04 Itasca Horizon 36GD with the CAT C-7 330HP, was close to one of the first Freightliner chassis Itascas WITH the C-7. The Chassis was built in OCT of '03 and the coach built in Nov of '03 and it was first put into service in Jan of '04. The C-7 has ratings of 300, 330 and 350 horsepower, in standard R/V and certain truck applications like Fire trucks.
The 3126 is not the c the 3126 versions are topped out at 330 hp the C& is supposed to make 350 hp and 800 lbs of torque.
Yes, you are right the C-7 IS NOT THE 3126 but, it's a very close brother to it. There are operational characteristics and, equipment changes on the C-7. And yes, the 3126 does have the greasable fan bearing while the C-7 is sporting the sealed fan bearing. Some like that and some don't.
The specs are close in both engines though. The Truck and RV versions of the 3126 show 330HP and 860 ft.lbs. of torque. That's the same specs as the C-7. It is odd that, all three versions of the C-7, 300, 330 and 350HP, all have the same torque.
The C7 superceeded the 3126 version, which also had a greasable fan bearing hub. Not sure of the year. Or maybe tehy replaced the entire engine with a 3126 as things do not look the same as original such as exhaust exit too low and when you would take of in the coach right after we bought it it would shoot out black exhaust and really scoot. The coach is lazy now.
Not sure what you mean when you say "they wrecked it". Are you saying that the coach was hit or, they backed into something? And if so, did they do enough damage that you had to have your entire engine replaced? Did they change the exhaust too? Was it routed differently than when you originally bought the coach?
So far, in the 7+ years we've owned the coach and, the 83,000 miles that are now on it, that CAT has done remarkably well. I do all my own maintenance including removing both the radiator and CAC to get at all the needed replacement parts like serpentine tensioner bearings, idler bearings, water pump tensioner bearings and, after 75,000 miles, I did replace that fan hub bearing. The original one was still spinning somewhat nicely, noisy but, nice. It was good timing when I did it.
I don't really follow a perfect schedule in oil changes. Mine usually end up at twice a year, regardless of the miles between them. Yeah, it might be a bit more expensive that way but, OIL IS CHEAP compared to a HEUI pump.
Scott
Also I saw the pan on our when we were having the oil changed in Decatur Indiana, after the Factory had fixed some items and before taking it back to Dealer, the biggest mistake in our lives to correct one of their mistakes and they wrecked it.
Sir,
The 3126 is very close to the C-7 with some changes. I know all about the C-7 and when it went into service. Our coach an '04 Itasca Horizon 36GD with the CAT C-7 330HP, was close to one of the first Freightliner chassis Itascas WITH the C-7. The Chassis was built in OCT of '03 and the coach built in Nov of '03 and it was first put into service in Jan of '04. The C-7 has ratings of 300, 330 and 350 horsepower, in standard R/V and certain truck applications like Fire trucks.
The 3126 is not the c the 3126 versions are topped out at 330 hp the C& is supposed to make 350 hp and 800 lbs of torque.
Yes, you are right the C-7 IS NOT THE 3126 but, it's a very close brother to it. There are operational characteristics and, equipment changes on the C-7. And yes, the 3126 does have the greasable fan bearing while the C-7 is sporting the sealed fan bearing. Some like that and some don't.
The specs are close in both engines though. The Truck and RV versions of the 3126 show 330HP and 860 ft.lbs. of torque. That's the same specs as the C-7. It is odd that, all three versions of the C-7, 300, 330 and 350HP, all have the same torque.
The C7 superceeded the 3126 version, which also had a greasable fan bearing hub. Not sure of the year. Or maybe tehy replaced the entire engine with a 3126 as things do not look the same as original such as exhaust exit too low and when you would take of in the coach right after we bought it it would shoot out black exhaust and really scoot. The coach is lazy now.
Not sure what you mean when you say "they wrecked it". Are you saying that the coach was hit or, they backed into something? And if so, did they do enough damage that you had to have your entire engine replaced? Did they change the exhaust too? Was it routed differently than when you originally bought the coach?
So far, in the 7+ years we've owned the coach and, the 83,000 miles that are now on it, that CAT has done remarkably well. I do all my own maintenance including removing both the radiator and CAC to get at all the needed replacement parts like serpentine tensioner bearings, idler bearings, water pump tensioner bearings and, after 75,000 miles, I did replace that fan hub bearing. The original one was still spinning somewhat nicely, noisy but, nice. It was good timing when I did it.
I don't really follow a perfect schedule in oil changes. Mine usually end up at twice a year, regardless of the miles between them. Yeah, it might be a bit more expensive that way but, OIL IS CHEAP compared to a HEUI pump.
Scott
