Diesel vs gas......................
OK folks, there have been a few to many diesel vs gas threads that have shall we say gone to "Hell and a hand basket"! So if all of you would put in you BEST, no flaming reasons for going gas vs diese...
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Tom, Then get a gas rig, even the GM 6.0 with the 6 sp trans would pull fine. I have not looked at the pickup.com pulling comparison to see if they did gas rigs too. but a few yrs back, the 6.0/6sp was pretty close to the dmax as far as all pulling empty or loaded times etc goes. I recall that combo out did the V10. The hemi 6sp auto has some happy campers on this site too.
If you want to make a single trip to yellowstone, do it, so you go 25 as I did with my 88 454 at 15K lbs up hills, in 01 I pulled the hills at an easy 35 speed limit at 16K with a 12K rated GM 6.5td 5sp manual setup vs the 3.73 3 sp auto the TBI 454 had. The new ones are better off with the puter controls vs what I had. My next rig will probably be a 6.0 gas, 4.33 gears and the 6 sp auto if I can find those gears. The 3.73 would do most folks ample, but my general driving speeds are 50-55 and under many days never above 45, so lower gears will help my mpg some getting me to taller trans gears.
Marty
If you want to make a single trip to yellowstone, do it, so you go 25 as I did with my 88 454 at 15K lbs up hills, in 01 I pulled the hills at an easy 35 speed limit at 16K with a 12K rated GM 6.5td 5sp manual setup vs the 3.73 3 sp auto the TBI 454 had. The new ones are better off with the puter controls vs what I had. My next rig will probably be a 6.0 gas, 4.33 gears and the 6 sp auto if I can find those gears. The 3.73 would do most folks ample, but my general driving speeds are 50-55 and under many days never above 45, so lower gears will help my mpg some getting me to taller trans gears.
Marty
