2015 Chevy 3500 vs Ford 350 diesels
My 2004 GMC Sierra 3500 6.6 LLY is getting a little long in the tooth, even though it only has 42k miles on it. Starting to have random failures, like corroded brakes, failed hard brake lines, failed...
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CumminsDriver wrote:
The power difference is not that much, if any at all. On paper the 2015 Ford should walk away from the other two but it doesn't. A few months ago, the "test" that Ford ran against the other two, the Ford was running 4.30 gears versus 4.10 for Ram and 3.73 for the GM truck. Given that the Ford Transmission also has lower gears in the first 4 forward gears than the others, the "test" was actually very close with the Ram being beat by 9.9 seconds and the GM behind by I believe about 19 seconds. Not exactly earth shattering and had all three been running 3.73 gears the results would have been even closer, maybe who was first may have been different also.
I'd also say look at the exhaust brake performance, as I haven't heard that much about Fords new exhaust brake. The last comparisons had the GM and Ram exhaust brakes working much better than the Fords. And I'm surprised that Ford didn't include an exhaust brake test when they did the performance test a few months ago.
Rich
Actually Fast Lane with GM performed an exhaust brake test and the '15 GM outperformed the '14 RAM and '14 Ford.
