I missed a couple interesting things in this post the other day, I can tell you exactly why dodge had to wait to make a crew cab. ford bought controlling stock in Cummins and dodge wasn't going to be able to make any new Cummins powered vehicles unless they agreed to the delay on crew cabs.
also idling any vehicle is hard, I love the fact that the newer trucks will show both run hours and idle hours so you know which ones to stay away from. we have issues with the trucks at work (all gas powered) because the amount of idle time, plus now we are getting hit with all the problems the chev 6.2 and 6.6 are having to the point where my crew's 4 trucks usually only 1 is running at any given time. they are looking for new trucks for us now and maybe moving away from chev all together.
Well that makes sense, good strategic move by Ford. I did not know that.
so Dodge lost the battle and Ford lost the war. Just think how popular Sooper Doodys would be if they were ALL Fummins!!
Hope the new everything in Jeff’s low mileage cooling system keeps it from overheating. Among other things, the cooling systems are sooo finicky on the 6.0s.
By comparison, our 07 5.9 Cummins Ram, when it was pretty new, our young boys got a kick out of folding over the radiator fins one day when I removed the gaudy aftermarket grille inserts it came with. They smashed about 50-60% of the fins flat on whatever was in the front of the cooling stack. Never needed fixed. Uphill towing in the dead of summer. Just fine. Now that’s a good cooling system.
I did throw a water pump at it at around 130k before a cross country trip. Just because it was old and they are cheap and easy to replace.
