Sun Nov 24, 2013 1:34 pm by Dieselholic92
I think that the old 9300s hold up just as well as the newer 9900s. They each have their own problem. The only major long term issues we've ever had with the 9300s is the double frame and the hoods cracking apart. The rust just builds up between the frame rails at the top and pushes them apart, and the hoods always seem like they were cracking all around the mounting brackets on the front and falling apart. But this 9300 that we restored spent 989,000 miles (since brand new) as a gravel truck with Hendrickson Walking Beam, and that can really be hard on stuff. I would say it did pretty well. Since then we've had a couple of the newer Paystar 5000s and none of them held up like this 9300 did. They were all traded off around 600,000 except for one of them that we still have. We had another 9300 that was almost a sister to this one, and it was tipped on it's side 2 times before we traded it. The problems we have with the newer trucks is mainly computer related. Other than that they hold up pretty well to the abuse of dirt work. Our 9900s have Caterpillar C15s and ISX Cummins motors, and the 9200s have ISM Cummins. The old 9300 lowboy has a N14 Celect Plus. Then we have a newer Paystar 5000 dump truck with a 20 cubic yard box, air suspension, and an ISM, and a 7700 dump truck with walking beam, 18 cubic yard box, and a C13. Our oldest truck, besides the 9300 in this thread, is a 1994 International 2574 dump truck.
1947 International KB 6
1960 International B170
1988 International 9300
1996 International 9300