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jon f mn

jon f mn

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Was down in Dallas today at our yard and saw my old truck. Been more than 6 months now and the only movement has been to the far back row. Lol. Wonder what they will end up doing with her.
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The others are 2012's with mid roof sleepers, mine is a 2014 with the taller "condo" sleeper. According to the papers in the Windows even tho mine is 2 years newer it has more miles than the others out there. Those were company trucks tho.
 
6 1/2 months and 65,000+ miles without a breakdown which is longer than the Volvo ever went from new, so that's VERY good. Mileage is at 8.1 since then which is a bit more extra over the Volvo to pay the extra $500/mo in payments, so that is good. Trany is nothing like the Volvo, and the biggest disappointment. I've had it in twice for adjustment and it's better, but will need another trip in for more tweaking. But I doubt it will ever be anywhere near as good as the Volvo. I figured out how to drive the motor and it does pretty well now, but you need to drive, where the Volvo just worked well all the time. This one you need to go to manual on the trany and drop down a gear, then it pulls good and gets the same mileage as in auto mode. Over all it's good and as long as it keeps running trouble free I'll be happy with it.
 
Glad to hear the new machine is working out well. I'm curious haow does the engine brake work with an auto do ya lock it in gear when going down a big hill or will it hold back because it feels the truck speeding up on its own? My work van has the Allison auto in it and I just tap the brakes and it will hold speed on a long hill or I can hit the button and will slow down like coming into an intersection. Inquiring minds lol.
 
Maybe the dealer will carry it 9 months and then take to Richie or Taylor Martin. I have seen IH Prostars selling dirt cheap with 300K to 650K($15K to $40K).
 
It works very similar. If your driving with the cruise on and the engine brake on, when you go down hill and get 5mph over where your cruise is set the engine brake comes on, at 7 over it automatically downshifts to get the rpms up so it holds better. For stopping or just slowing one tap turns it on and a second tap puts it in max mode where it will down shift and keep down shifting to keep the rpms between 1500 and 2100 down to 5th gear where you are slow enough that it holds to 1000 rpms then shifts to neutral. At that point you are only a light brake tap drom stopping. It also has a switch where you can set for 2, 4, oor 6 cylinders to get less braking if you want.
 
You are correct. It has a dry clutch just like a regular trany, only its controled by the computer. An allison has a torque converter.
 
If he wants to do that we could fix up a better truck than that one for him! Lol Those graphics only cost about 1/4 to 1/3 what most of the breakdowns cost with that truck.
 
Well Larry, I had my fill of White Line fever. I still have my class A CDL but it will revert back to a common license when it expires. Can't pass the CDL physical anymore.
Loren
 
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