A little background on the Million Dollar Baby

A little background on the Million Dollar Baby.
The truck is a 1992 Kenworth B Model W-900. It has a 425 h.p. 3406 B-Model Caterpillar engine, a 15 speed deep-reduction transmission with 3:55 Eaton 402 rear ends. It has the V.I.T. Kenworth interior and the Aerodyne I style 60" walk in sleeper with double bunks. It had a 270 inch wheelbase before I cut it down, and I haven't measured it since.
It has approximately 1.5 million miles on it, and I drove it about 900,000 of those miles. I had an inframe rebuild done to the engine in 1999, and it's been running untouched ever since. (Same turbocharger since then too! Today's lesson is change the oil regularly!)
It's on the third clutch since new, and I put an Eaton reconditioned transmission in it at about 1.3 million miles. (It didn't need a clutch then, but I put one in it anyway since the transmission was out already.)

Monday, August 1, 2011

Another old truck

This is a 1983 Kenworth W-900 that belonged to a friend of mine from Duncan, Arizona. This is the truck that is in the rear view mirror following me up the hill out of Clifton, Arizona. This truck was originally a fuel truck with no sleeper and a tank on it, but as can be seen in the picture, it has undergone a few changes. It had an A-Model 3406 Cat in it from the factory, but my friend found a B-Model in an old truck parked in a field. He had the engine rebuilt at a shop up in Show Low, Arizona, by an older mechanic who was well known for his hot rod truck engine building skills. They set it in the frame, and it made quite a difference. This thing would pull that 8% grade out of Clifton at 50+ mph. I never drove it, but I ran quite a few trips with the guy that owned it. He sold it to another friend of mine who ran it a couple of years, then the last I heard about it a guy we all knew bought it for about two grand and took it to Florida; he said to restore it. I hope so. If I would have known it went for two grand I would have bought it myself.
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  1. CHANCEAugust 21, 2011 at 11:42 PM

    excuse me sir.... but we would like a pic from the front view. we all see that this is most likley "from what you said" the only part you ever seen of this truck when going down the hwy. but it is parked , so i wanna i mean we wanna see em from the front........

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