Gas or Diesel?? which is better
We are planning to upgrade our travel trailer to a Class A motorhome and plan to travel extensively around the United States. We have been told by folks with diesel pushers that we "must" purchase a ...
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soren wrote:
If you use the transmission properly, on any of the Ford gas chassis built built in the last 15 years, you can decend the biggest mountains in North America with both feet on the floor. As in cold brakes, and no drama at the bottom of the grade.
Soren, you are correct in that the V10-transmission combo does an excellent job however, your description is a bit misleading from my experience in our previous V10 powered motor home. We travel the western US Rocky Mountains extensively and our former V10 still needed a bit of proper snub braking coupled with proper transmission selection navigating some of the more aggressive grades. "Keeping both feet on the floor" all the way down would have been interesting!:E
I am not even going to try to compare gas vs. DP other than to say, our current DP with a multi-stage compression brake gets the job done. Huge difference in braking performance of the two. Different machines that still took us wherever we wanted go, just different ways to go about it.
