High Mileage Trucks: PSD and Cummins and Duramax
Truck has 275k miles and spent most of it's life in Canada. Enjoy... Link Edit: Changed title to include Cummins and Duramax to receive some love too.
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275k for ANY engine may or may not be high mileage. If one figures life expectancy to be 250k in a light duty pickup use, the 275 becomes high mileage. No e of the pickup .motors will generally speaking get a million miles line the 6 cyl motors in class 8 rigs. My IDI 7.3 was known as a 100k mile throw away motor back in the day. The I6 motors were expecting 400-600k miles depending upon usage.
Psd7.3 and B5.9 got iirc around 450k before needing rebuilds back then in MDT use.
I haven't paid much attention the last decade or so on engine life, but the blocks seem to last, it's the add ons like fuel system, computers etc that seems to fail, hence getting rigs put in recycle/junk yards.
Marty
Psd7.3 and B5.9 got iirc around 450k before needing rebuilds back then in MDT use.
I haven't paid much attention the last decade or so on engine life, but the blocks seem to last, it's the add ons like fuel system, computers etc that seems to fail, hence getting rigs put in recycle/junk yards.
Marty
