blt2ski wrote:
But to put a basic 6.2 in your truck, no thanks. The HP/torque specs were on par with a 305 V8 from the time, and it was ment to be a high mpg305 equal, "IT DID" that very well, but with a 120/240 hp/torque amount, no its not going to tow anything big at a reasonable speed per say.
Yep, that is about right. Just out of high school, I drove a 6.2 diesel Suburban on a 2100 mile road trip with some friends. It got good mpg -- we averaged 20 mpg at speeds of about 60 mph (it didn't like to go much faster!), and it was kinda crazy being able to drive from Medford, Oregon to SLC, Utah on one tank of fuel, with a few gallons to spare (good thing, because diesel was a little harder to find then -- at least, we weren't used to looking for it in the right places, and drove around for about 45 minutes trying to find fuel once we got to SLC). That said, it was not powerful by any stretch of the imagination, and it was not very exciting to drive -- if anything, more gutless than the 305 Suburban my family had at the time. I would hate to have towed anything with it.
Kinda funny, now that I think about it -- that 6.2 and my grandpa's Ford 6.9 diesel were the first diesels I ever drove, and they turned me off to diesels for a long time! Those engines were dogs compared to the gas small block V8's of the same vintage. Times have changed!
