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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valhalla360 wrote:Turtle n Peeps wrote:
There is a reason you see a class 8-10 trucks with diesel engines in them.
Sure for decades diesel fuel was cheaper per gallon and you got better MPG with diesel...win-win for a truck intended to put on 50-100k miles per year. You netted maybe 30-50% more miles per $1.
This lead to manufacturers almost exclusively designing motors for class 8-10 trucks as diesels because the gas engines wouldn't sell.
Swing back 15-20yrs ago and suddenly diesel is more expensive than gas, so the the fuel savings are much smaller but everyone is hard wired to spec a diesel engine and a big durable gas engine would have to be designed from the ground up (and yes, you can design a gas engine that will put out equivalent power and have similar long term durability...there is just no market for it.)
How many miles does the average RV run in a year?
In my early teens, the farm bought first diesel truck. Using that made it hard to get back in the I6 GMC.
In my early '20s, bought my first class 8. Seasonal work, a load or 2 per day I would gross 110,000LBS with that 427 GMC. Much of the day I worked without trailer grossing around 66,000. If I could of made a living running 12,000 miles a year I would of still been driving 1 of the 427s when I retired.
