back to gas v diesel
An rv owner who traded his diesel for the 7.3. He talks towing, fuel, payload etc and does qualify it from the perspective of towing a 12,000 lb travel trailer. godzilla towing Thought a few may fi...
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FishOnOne wrote:
I saw this thread this morning and during lunch I was filling up with diesel and what comes pulling up next to me? A 4500 Ram with a Hemi engine. I've been seeing this trend in the Ram truck line with more and more Hemi's replacing the cummins engine. So I had to ask the field tech why he has a gas engine and instead of diesel and his comment was emissions, transmission and injector failures. He said their entire fleet of trucks is just about converted to gas. Also he said the gas is underpowered in his truck.
LOL, nice try. My work has almost exclusively gas powered Fords; that switch occurred right after the 6.0L, 6.4L, and early 6.7L diesel fiascos. Most government agencies have gone to gas powered trucks for their smaller trucks.
Now, we bought 6 new Freightliner dump trucks; 3 of them are 3 tons with the Cummins 6.7L engine and 3 of them are 5 tons with the Cummins 9L engine. It will be interesting to see how they hold up, but the crews love them so far.
