To DP or not DP
We are in the preliminary stages of prepping for full time in the next year and a half. I work remote and our son will be going off to college, so we thought we would see a lot more of this great coun...
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Bird Freak wrote:Tom/Barb wrote:On a Detroit 138K is almost broke in.mike brez wrote:
Get This One and call it a day.
yeah that ! beautiful !
but a little long in the tooth. (138k miles).
At 138k it has had plenty of chance to be misused too.
Those engines that get a million miles are engines in truck fleets, under continual maintenance schedules where the care is much better than 7000k miles pre year and oil changes every 15,000.
given, that the coach will most likely be scrapped with a good engine in it.
doing the routine daily maintenance on a diesel vs a gas, is very small.and oil change is simply an oil change. fuel filters are about the same.
I doubt there is a reader here that would attempt a transmission change or an engine overhaul in either type.
So the OMG the diesel maintenance boogyman is an empty threat.
