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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JRscooby wrote: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?
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That's the point, you aren't going to pay for your new 350/3500 diesel upgrade with fuel savings and your average gas engine is good for 250,000miles, so if you drive a someone typical 12,500miles per year, the truck will be 20yrs old...which corresponds to when the body and suspension are pretty well shot anyway. Very few engines (gas or diesel) are literally worn out when they go to the junk yard.
