Choosing Gasoline or Diesel Powered?
I realize that this is a long thread but if you are pondering the Gasoline versus a Diesel based on power consideration or are wondering about adding an after market performance enhancing kit to a Gas...
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solidfiction: You make my point - there is a real difference in how the two are designed. The engines in trucks ran for a long time, the engines in the cars ran for a long time, but if a car engine was put into a truck, bad news. The bus had a lot of miles on it. The engine blew and they bought one from a junk yard, it blew, so they got another - it blew so they bought a reman. When it blew shortly after the warranty was up - no more bucks for that bus. (Not sure there might have been one more.) BTW I am fairly certain that all of the engines were car engines rebuilt with the same claim that they were equivalent to the truck engine they replaced.
I am not an expert, though I have worked on a lot of engines, and I was not directly involved in finding out what was wrong with those 460s, nor what failed, but I do know that the engines went out one after the other with very few service miles on each of them - that is not the mark of a 'good' engine.
The people who did the work were very reputable people, too. And the experiences of many Chevy and Ford engine owners who had these engines in RVs attest to the truth of the 'perception' that those old gassers were nothing to write home about. 'Buy one at your peril' is my thought - maybe you'll get lucky and it will run for a long time, maybe not. My advice remains 'buy a later model with a V10 or Vortec'.
The same problem could happen with the later engines, too. But the experience is that the manufacturers have done something to make them more 'reliable'. I have not studied the subject to find out what.
I am not an expert, though I have worked on a lot of engines, and I was not directly involved in finding out what was wrong with those 460s, nor what failed, but I do know that the engines went out one after the other with very few service miles on each of them - that is not the mark of a 'good' engine.
The people who did the work were very reputable people, too. And the experiences of many Chevy and Ford engine owners who had these engines in RVs attest to the truth of the 'perception' that those old gassers were nothing to write home about. 'Buy one at your peril' is my thought - maybe you'll get lucky and it will run for a long time, maybe not. My advice remains 'buy a later model with a V10 or Vortec'.
The same problem could happen with the later engines, too. But the experience is that the manufacturers have done something to make them more 'reliable'. I have not studied the subject to find out what.
