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Originally Posted by musigenesis
So, it's pretty common advice on this forum to seek out buses from 2003 or earlier. Later engines added emissions control devices and other changes that greatly impaired their reliability and increased the costs associated with maintaining and repairing them. Thomases of your vintage (it's a C2?) have either the CAT7 or Mercedes-Benz engines, neither of which is really desirable because of the costs.
This is not meant to bum you out about your bus, but maybe to consider things if you're not currently the high bidder.
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Cat C7 and the MBE are two of the better engines from that era. I'd not want one, but I'd sure rather have either of those than anything Navistar was building after 04.
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