Burner

Has DC placed an hour meter in the trucks?

bulabula

Yes; with key on and engine off, press and hold the odometer/tripmeter button down. The number of total engine hours will appear.

Flyinhigh79

Make sure that your actual miles are showing when you push the button not your trip meter.

Nuttymopar

You will need to hold that for 6 seconds at least.

ASHNBAK

And the trip meter will display prior to the hrs showing up.

longbed

mY 03 HAS 80,000 MI the hours say 2990 is that a lot? How many hours will it run before rebuild? Everyone says 300,000 mi till rebuild but never heard about hours.

kingofdodge7131

dunno if its good or not, if you drove constantly youd only drive 26 mph, I hear that this is an excuse that DC uses to deny warrenty, ( too much idle or some crap)

Burner

A good Diesel should last at least 6,000 hours and that's under a strain. However, it really depends on how it's used. Dozer motors can fall out pretty easy due to the shock load. Track-hoe motors should last a long time....unless you've got some idoit work'n on a 50% grade for two weeks! Heck, a station motor (like a water pump or generator) will last a really long time.
I would guess the 5.9 in a non-service truck should last about 10,000 hours before anything fails. ......that's a guess.

Maybe we could get a "time" thread going? It would be really informative to know that schedule.

------------Edit: Failing means hard parts not soft parts like gaskets and such.

dieselnewbie

I'd say these engines should last a lot longer than 10k hours.

I've had my truck for 14 months and have 14k miles on it and the hour meter reads 383.

If you extrapolate that based on a 10k hour lifetime it works out to be ~360k miles. Not enough.

If you work it backwards starting with a 1,000,000 mile lifetime (reachable for a non-service well maintained truck, IMO) it should last about 27,000 hours.

I think that's right.

DT.

Edit: Actually Burner you may be right. A well maintained truck that needs repair at 10,000hours/360k miles is very reasonable. I thought you meant lifetime hours, not hours to first breakdown

Burner

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My yard tractor has aout 10,000 hours on it. It had some head work around 8,700 hours but the bottom end seem ok. You know what's funny though? It's a CAT and it's got a JAP motor in it? .....you never know sometimes, never know. Oh, the CAT is an IT-28 or a 28,000 lb tractor.

PsRumors

My '03 with 66k miles has 2093 hrs.

OilBrn

I hope these engines last more than 300k, my old gM 5.7gas truck has 392k, and still goes down the road, and the only thing I changed was the timing chain and spockets, and a clutch at 250k.

gman07

I know that our Case IH tractors, which use the Cummins 8.3, are supposed to last at least 10,000 hours before a major rebuild. We havent run one over 6,000 hours yet, but we have had no problems.

bubba33

mine has 558 hours and 39000 on it.but i had to have the dash cluster changed with 20000 miles on it.they must not of set the hours on it like they did with the milage.

kelley15

My 03 truck has 89,560 miles and 2145 hours. For the most part trouble free.