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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TyStevens,
You might consider comparing apples to apples rather than apples to oranges. Should we add heavy tracked armored vehicles with diesel engines to the discussion? The Bradley M2/M3 has a 600hp Cummins VTA-903T 8-cylinder diesel engine. Most foreign tanks have diesel engines.
UPS trucks are not pickup trucks - they are commercial trucks. Commercial trucks with diesel engines don't have the same emissions systems that heavy-duty pickups must have and, AFAIK, they generally don't use the same diesel engines that heavy-duty pickups do.
The problem I described concerns the emissions control systems on heavy-duty diesel pickups. Diesel heavy-duty pickups built before the emissions system requirement was imposed work just fine. So will current diesel pickup trucks if the emissions systems are removed. It's the emissions system which creates serious maintenance problems for diesel pickups with lots of stop & go mileage.
You might consider comparing apples to apples rather than apples to oranges. Should we add heavy tracked armored vehicles with diesel engines to the discussion? The Bradley M2/M3 has a 600hp Cummins VTA-903T 8-cylinder diesel engine. Most foreign tanks have diesel engines.
UPS trucks are not pickup trucks - they are commercial trucks. Commercial trucks with diesel engines don't have the same emissions systems that heavy-duty pickups must have and, AFAIK, they generally don't use the same diesel engines that heavy-duty pickups do.
The problem I described concerns the emissions control systems on heavy-duty diesel pickups. Diesel heavy-duty pickups built before the emissions system requirement was imposed work just fine. So will current diesel pickup trucks if the emissions systems are removed. It's the emissions system which creates serious maintenance problems for diesel pickups with lots of stop & go mileage.
