3/4 ton diesel vs. gas

valhalla360 wrote:

schlep1967 wrote:
You know that hill you go up now at 2000 RPM in your diesel? It will be at 5500 RPM in the gasser. If you like to hear a screaming motor, get the gasser.

Really? Just finished a 7 month loop of the US including time in the Rockies and the Appalachians.

We are pulling around 7500lb with a 2008 V10. Never saw over 3000rpm up hill and only touched 3500rpm a couple times on steep downhills (usually never got above 3000rpm on downhills). It's all quite sedate.

That is probably because schlep1967 was talking about a much heavier weight. A 7,500 trailer is really light in my opinion. I pulled heavier 9.5k trailers with my old F-150HD that had a turbocharged V6 and it hardly ever got above 3k rpm.

OP, this is all going to personal opinion. One person may say that towing with a gaser is fine while another may not like it. Everyone's personal preferences are different and everyone tows different size/weight trailers in different situations. As was already stated, you get over 300 hp at just 2,000 rpm with every one of today's diesel. That is enough horsepower to keep speed up most hills towing 12-14k trailers. A gaser would need over 4k rpm to produce the same amount of horsepower and that is if the torque converter is locked.

A diesel or gaser in an HD pick up is no differnce than a V8 or V6 in a muscle car. You will have to pay up front if you want the added perfromance, however, unlike the v8 versus V6 in the muscle car, the diesel in the HD gets better fuel which helps(notice I said helps) pay for itself when resale is also included. I will say that right now, used diesel trucks are very expensive due to new truck shortage. I paid a little over $50k for mine(MSRP $64k) back in 2014 and I had a local dealer offer me $42k. The 6.4L gaser equavalent of my truck would be less than $29k according to KBB.