Mixer body is in surprisingly good shape, shouldn't be much trouble getting that part back up to snuff.
Cab took a beating. Insurance guy thinks the cab shoving back into the exhaust stand pipe tweaked the frame, he's claiming to see a couple "bumps" in the top flanges where the frame changes profile depth. I think the frame is fine, looks just how it did when we pulled the frame and sandblasted and painted it 2 years ago. Won't know for sure til we get a professional to look at it though. Pretty sure insurance is going to separate the mixer and chassis and total the chassis. Which given that it's a 2003 with 27,000 hours and 435,000 miles, I get it. But it did cost us a pretty penny to get this truck prepped for this mixer, far more than I suspect insurance will pay out.
Looking at a 2000 MR688 as either parts truck or replacement chassis. The 2000 has a bad cam (I'm assuming rotated roller ate a lobe). 2000 is right side eecu, ETECH engine.
2003 is left side redesign eecu, ai350 engine.
What cross fit issues am I going to run into? Is there any difference in the chassis wiring harnesses that would hinder my ability to put the 2000 cab on the 2003? This will be an ongoing thread for a while as we sort out this mess. MR688S chassis on both of them I believe. Haven't seen the 2000 in person yet.
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JoeH
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So my driver did this about a week ago.
Fortunately no injuries.
Moving on.
Mixer body is in surprisingly good shape, shouldn't be much trouble getting that part back up to snuff.
Cab took a beating. Insurance guy thinks the cab shoving back into the exhaust stand pipe tweaked the frame, he's claiming to see a couple "bumps" in the top flanges where the frame changes profile depth. I think the frame is fine, looks just how it did when we pulled the frame and sandblasted and painted it 2 years ago. Won't know for sure til we get a professional to look at it though. Pretty sure insurance is going to separate the mixer and chassis and total the chassis. Which given that it's a 2003 with 27,000 hours and 435,000 miles, I get it. But it did cost us a pretty penny to get this truck prepped for this mixer, far more than I suspect insurance will pay out.
Looking at a 2000 MR688 as either parts truck or replacement chassis. The 2000 has a bad cam (I'm assuming rotated roller ate a lobe). 2000 is right side eecu, ETECH engine.
2003 is left side redesign eecu, ai350 engine.
What cross fit issues am I going to run into? Is there any difference in the chassis wiring harnesses that would hinder my ability to put the 2000 cab on the 2003? This will be an ongoing thread for a while as we sort out this mess. MR688S chassis on both of them I believe. Haven't seen the 2000 in person yet.
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