Myself i have been around the I H semi's since 73 when i drove the first 4200 a friend had bought new then i bought a new 4300 and ran that for 8 years. Then here back in 2001 i went back to driving and was driving a 9400 hauling the big ugly oversized stuff with loads up to over the 200000 lb mark . it was a nice truck and i got to like it real well. and did drive a couple 9300, here again IMHO one of the best trucks on the road for comfort . Nice flat floor with lots of leg room wide cab for more room and comfort . Good visibility , nicely laid out dash easy in and out . BUT how is this one your looking at set up . IF it is not speced out correctly for your intended use it could be the biggest nightmare of your life . For what your thinking of doing a semi tractor must be set up for the task at hand . Like at min. a 14500 ft axle bare bones min of 44000 rears with 46000 rears prefered full lockers and 1810 drive line bare bone min on transmission would be a 13 speed but and 18 speed would be better. . Rear end gear ratio in the 4's and engine Hp in the 500 range and a double frame , wheel base of no less the 210 inches . For best all around off road supen. ya can not beat the old hendrickson extended leaf , yep they are a rough riden S>O>B> but they work vary well off road . Being that it probably has and N 14 Cummins ya want the RED top or the one with the red valve covers , they can be set factory at 525 and if you don't live in a Nanny state ya can teak them on up . The 9400 i drove had the 3406 E in it and was factory set at 550 then the BOX was added and put it to 740 . It ran nice at that setting and with the 3.9o rears she handled the humps and bumps well with a 100000 setting on the deck . Tire size is another thing that is important ya want the 24.5 rubber. What you do not want for what your thinking of doing is getting a ROAD TRACTOR to do off road work . when i bought my 4300 i set it up to haul COAL in my area but with a LITTLE road running sorta a blend of on off road . Our area was heavy into strip mining and our area has HILLS with only 1 four lane hyway , lots of old state routes county roads and GOAT paths with steep hills and we hauled extremely heavy , so i ordered 4.33 gears on the old 22 inch rubber and now they call that 24.5 . at the time the 350 Cummins was the king and a far cry from the old 318 Detroit . We thought we knew it all . Well the 350 did not use a gallon of oil a day the 350 did not get 3.5 MPG like the Detroit as it was doing 5.5-6 MPG and pulled a lot better . BUT then the battle of Hp started between my buddy and i when we had done all we could to inhance the performance of the NTC 350 he and i had two trucks that would flat out and run . Well like everything times change and the days of coal hualing were coming to and end and i found myself running out on the roads going places i had never been before and i soon learned that my 4.33 gears sucked , yes i could pull 88 MPH out of her flat on the floor but that was not good on the engine setting at 2450 she was happier at 2150 cruse . a 3.90 or even 4.10 would have been better and got me up in the 6 to 6.5 MPG. rather then the 5.6-7 avg. BUT she was still a hill climber and even with 95-98K in the wagon out on the open road she would stroll up any hill on the interstate at 72-75 with ease . with only having to do a split on the gear as once in the big hole you just sat back and enjoyed the ride and would just set there between 1950 and 2150 and most of the time all you had to do was press on the go pedal a little harder.
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