Diesel truck discussion

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I like the 12v cummins. But I have a 1991 f250 with the 300-6, and I love it. It's like a gas version of a cummins and parts are cheap. We have 5 or 6 spares that should last us until the year 3000, lol. I can haul anything that will fit on the truck. I limit my gross weight to 12k, double that if pulling a trailer.

My brother has a cummins, but he got fancy aluminum rims to replace the steelies and now he can't work it or they'll break....

 

Aluminum wheels are stronger than steel, unless you get those chintzy aftermarket ones

 

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He got fancy ones.

 

There's good aftermarket, and chintzy ones, is what I was saying.

 

Lol
https://youtube.com/shorts/w1MqzHB58X4?feature=share

 

....and after 20 miles, he's hitting the next exit to fill his trailer that's 50% batteries, in only a day or so.
No worry about the mandatory 10 hour maximum for the driver.

 

Too bad the engine and transmission outlasts the body. Ram pickups are notorious ruster's.

 

So with ram pulling the ecodiesel, the half ton diesel pickup is pretty much extinct. GM supposedly just upgraded their I 6 diesel but it's days are numbered as well. This pretty much proves what I said months ( maybe years now?) ago about half ton diesel pickup trucks and that they really don't make much sense.

 

Not sure what you are attempting to illustrate with your post. The Cummins is an inline 6 so it requires a longer stroke hence a longer con rod. The Duramax and the Powerstroke are V8's and so the con rods are shorter

 

I'd buy one if it looked more like a 4BT in a square body than what they brought to market.

 

It just amazes me! Cummins brought dodge back from the brink AND single-handedly changed the diesel pick-up market....There's no denying it.
Then dodge (under fiat's control) ruined the 1/2 ton dodge/ram market by using the pathetic VM Motori v6 Ecodiesel.
Emissions are the biggest part of the diesel's problems

 

A cummins will outlast a ford, chevy and ram body combined, so i don't know what you're trying to argue.

 

Owned it almost 22 years. No rust. Body is in good shape.

 

This is the real reason. Rudolph Diesel is probably rolling in his grave right now. The diesel engine was so simple to start with. That was the brilliance with the diesel.

Now electric/ hybrid didn't do anything to help diesels, especially in anything non heavy duty.

 

...and will get worse as T5 is brought to bear.

 

That is because where you live roads are not treated with salt or brine which accelerates corrosion. My 97 F350 has no rust either, It stays garaged all winter, never seen snow or road salt.

 

Not arguing anything, just stating a fact. Lots of rusty Rams around here. The outfit I retired from was FCA's largest supplier of sheet metal and I know for a fact that their QC was almost non-existent. They bought anything, so long as it was cheap.

 

I have noticed the same (pre mature rust) around here with the Dodge vehicles and particularly the trucks.
In my view, "they've" done the same thing to the beautifully simple compression ignition engine that they did to gasoline engines in the 70's and 80's, ruined them! In fact it's almost a complete reversal with the exception of power and economy, but that's the nature of the different fuels.