WILL IT START & DRIVE HOME 350 MILES?? - Peterbilt 359 (Big Cam Cummins)

Abandoned Peterbilt! Will It Run And Drive Home?

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Mick Nock
PO Box 770743
Lakewood, OH 44107

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[jameswhite]

I’ve been driving and owning trucks for close to 30yrs and I’m here to say you picked a good one

[thomaskirk]

Looks like a great tractor, service it, put some good rubber on it and keep it. Do a nice cleanup on the paint and chrome, that Big Cam Cummins is a great powerplant.

[Matheavus]

I will tell you as a retired owner operator, the truck is the easy part, dealing with the regulations and insurance of the trucking business can become a nightmare. I retired 3 years ago and had a paid off 2019 Lonestar with all the bells and whistle that I wish I never sold, but insurance was close to 7000 a year without any claims in 20 plus years plus, drug test, dot regulations I could not find a way to keep it as my fun projects haul. I don't know is there is a possibility as not for hire truck would be easier. But man that is a sweet truck, best engine and transmission, rare even for a daycab Peterbilt. When you get the time to look more on it you will find the parking brakes are in the front tandem axle. They might be caged or completely dis adjusted as is common practice in vehicle that are sitting for to long. Or could be the spring on the chamber brake broke, seen it many times, but seldom on both. Good luck with your new project.

[RodHinman-zrps]

Your truck is set up for pulling an end dump trailer the right tank has hydraulic fluid in it. And the parking brake on a Peterbilt is on the middle axel

[barryburkholder]

Keep it. You can always sell it when you have to. It’s your dream.

[humdinger]

Here’s hoping this channel takes off so you can keep all your projects it’s fun to watch

[bennykray]

Yeah man dude, clean looking truck! Get it serviced and make use of it- once in a lifetime deals are hard to come by.

[erinmielcusny]

The gang gets chicken dinners & the ranch gains a semi truck, it’s simply too good

[stevee]

Dude! a Pete for a first Truck. You are living the dream! Sweet ride!

[donaldoyler]

Use some Howell it will help clean the injectors and make it run better

[vicmerle]

Hey Mick, On your driver tires you have recaps/retreads. That’s the seam beginning to separate. Remember steering tires never have recaps. Steering tires are always replaced with brand new!

I had one of the last Canadian Freightliner cabovers with a Big cam 350 great engine as long as the cam lobes are in good shape because once they wear down the injectors start to dribble fuel and you are sending of unburned diesel up your stack

[shawngleason]

You just need to put the 2 stage brake cans on it. The other part of the can has a large spring which applies the brakes when air pressure is taken from the wheel when your pushing in air supply knob it's simply applying air to release the spring.

[crr]

Beautiful truck! We have a 86 359 Corvette dash 13speed cat 425 b model here at work as our lowboy tractor. I see you have a wet kit one of your tanks is likely a hyd tank. The fuel switch on the dash doesn't switch which tank it draws fuel from it switches what tank the gauge reads originally when both tanks are fuel there would be a grabity cross over line connecting one tank to the other under the truck with a valve on each tank and then the engine only draws fuel from 1 tank but they stay equalized if both off the valves are open for the crossover hose. As someone else stated you likely only have maxi (parking) chambers on the front drive axle and they are either caged or broken springs or slack adjusters are completely backed off. If that hour meter is only 4 digit excluding the 1/10th roller its probably 10, 500hr and rolled around back to 0 to start over once in its life because I'm sure being a northern truck and a farm truck its got plenty of idle hours which is just fine. Having that wet kit you could run a hydraulic lowboy or a end dump and having a daycab set uo that way is very useful. I wouldn't sell it atleast definitely not right away keep it around do some matinence on it you'll eventually either decide you want to hold onto it or sell it off but always keep this in mind you'll never find another truck that nice and clean for that price. I would love to own a truck like that myself and the big cam is my favorite engine to have the cats have their issues and them parts in that yellow box they sure are proud of them. I'm not sure what you do for work but you could always consider pulling a end dump, tipper or belly dump as a owner operator or you could haul equipment for people especially when they buy something on a auction and since you have mechanical knowledge that would go along ways for getting something loaded up for the customer because we all know about them auction buys and their quirks. Being your not afraid to get your hands dirty and maintain stuff and thats a very very simple all mechanical truck you could make really really good money with it as a owner operator it would be cheap and economical to operate vs these new trucks with all their wiring and computers and emission systems that constantly break down and your stuck bringing it to the dealer for a expensive bill to pay. I wouldn't be super scared of them tires replace the steers and run the drives mild dry rot isn't a huge concern being they have lots of plys and if i had to guess that truck is geared to top out between 60 and 70mph. Ive run allot of really dry tires and they usually seem to hold together just fine if you keep it 60mph and under. But you don't want to have to experience a steering tire blow out because that will yank the truck off the road. I really look forward to seeing more of this truck!

[leonardkilburn]

Keep it! You will never find one again for that money! Service it yourself! You can buy lightly used tires off of a late model wreck, in a salvage yard. You can mount them yourself with 2, 6 foot breaker bars and some dish soap. In the future I would keep a litre of fuel and 2 fuel filters in my go bag.
I would take a close look at that rear boogie. They can run dry and rust out from the inside, with literally no indication.
I just bought a 78 Asto with the same running gear. It fires up the same way. Good Luck!

[andrewboyd]

Dude that Pete is beautiful!!! I see nothing but potential there I hope you build it and make a sweet old school rig

[zacharydaney]

Bad ass ride man, timeless old truck there.

[Richard-vhug]

Wow, ten thousand. Nice. I am a retired long hauler. Flush all fluids out and replace all filters.

[scottreed]

I drive a big cam 400 everyday too. I noticed oil pressure was at 20 when I doling them I mentioned it was 22 going down the rd. That’s a bit low so maybe the gauge isn’t working properly. I would check. Great vid, great truck..

[arrowkartj]

Does the tractor have a wet line on it? If so, you’re right tank is your hydraulic tank. That would mean you only have one tank of fuel.