Hino "D" unit

[EASYTRADER]

I have 400k plus on my 07 Hino - and have had only minor problems.
Its not underpowered. If you're bogging down in the hills try, changing your fuel filter.
I popped a head gasket about 50k miles ago. Which I brought to the dealer the day the warranty expired. Hino corporate covered the repair, and even sent a corporate TECH out to inspect the engine, according to Rush in Fontana popped head gaskets are rare with hinos.

I suspect I popped the Head Gasket pulling the grapevine with a load during the summer, I stayed in it and let it run into the red like a retard.

All in all I have spent more money repairing my APU, than my truck.

Yes they can be in-framed.

I get about 10 MPGs now that I have slowed down to 58 mph.

I have a gulfcoast oil filter, (single element) which is nice, I change the filters myself, which helps keep untrained monkeys off my equipment.

It seems the more work I do on the truck myself, the less problems I encounter. Same with the apu - since I stopped taking it in to carrier, it seems to be more reliable.

This should be a general lesson to all owner operators. Mechanics don't give a rats *** about your equipment. If you don't do as much of the work yourself you'll find your mechanic will create as many new problems as they fix.

[moose]

did you take an oil sample before the repairs ?

[EASYTRADER]

No i didn't I was in between samples and the previous one didn't show anything unusual. The after repair oil sample had them calling me to ask if had had the head off.

I do long interval on my oil samples, 20k Hinos burn super-clean so there is hardly any carbon build up at all.

anyway, my wife and I have been happy with our truck. Now our APU is a whole other story.

[moose]

. Now our APU is a whole other story.

Go to the City of Industry ,and treat yourself for a real nice APU...
Diamond Power Systems

[EASYTRADER]

That APU looks just like mine when you take the cover off. They're almost all made by the same company in Canada, TeleDyne Power or something.

I'm sure the new ones have finally got all the bugs worked out. The same company in Cnanda makes the Carrier, T-King, and well diamond power. They a basically marketing the same product under different names, although the T-king is a different design altogether.