A Look Inside My Engine, How It Died.
https://youtu.be/0-gAzrlLRfk Did something change here. Trying to post anything is all messed up. If you see a video link, you'll see my destroyed engine after all the work I put into it. Those...
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While I’ll admit, the last 6.7 Powerstroke I towed with was an early model, good to hear it actually works well. That said I’ve driven newer ones as well as LML and L5P Duramax and the exhaust brake seems non existent in daily driving.
Whereas the Cummins exh brake is there, every time loaded or unloaded, hill or no hill just as you’d except it to come on.
I’ll still maintain that class 4-5 trucks are horrific daily drivers and suck even worse with loads that are just on the rear axle and not significantly loading the front axle. Lots of seat time in flatbeds and dump bodies. The only ones that ride ok are service trucks where a bunch of weight is forward enough of the rear axle to make the front springs comply a bit and keep the tires from riding like flintstone wheels.
of course the 45O pickup has more capacity than a 350 with the same gvw. It’s also stiff but not as stiff as a 450 chassis cab model.
to each their own but if the op is after a dually for his stated use a 350/3500 is the best fit.
I appreciate and agree with most of what you have said.
Friends have alerted me to a nice 2015 F350 supercab at a decent price with a 6.2. That would be a good truck for me and not break the bank. Being retired, I do need to be careful of my spending as it may have to lastt me 5 or 20 years.
Pictures if I buy it.
Awesome! That would fit the bill nicely.
And as a F350 it will still have the 6r140 trans, same as the diesel.
Right around 2015-16 ford downgraded the F250 6.2 to the 6r100. Still more than suitable but the 6r140 is basically indestructible behind a 6.2 gasser.
That era of superduty 6.2 is one of the best trucks out there. Had 2 different ones as company trucks and the first one I beat pretty relentlessly, towing 14-16klbs in the cascades regularly. Never as much as a hiccup out of it.
