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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64thunderbolt wrote:
I think I'm out of here. It's obvious that these gasser owners don't know what long hard pulls really are. Most probably live east of the Rockies and have never been on a real mtn. Not to many back there. On paper the hp thing looks good but the heavy rotating mass of the diesel will keep it going when the gasser is gasping. I pass them all the time on the 6%+ pulls doing 35/40 and struggling to keep that. OR they pull small light weight trailers or both. I know what works in the real world. Ya'll have a good one.
I don't have anything against gassers or any of you guys. I enjoyed it a lot. But you couldn't tow my trailer any place I go.
That's funny. Us gassers can say that yes, diesel is by far the better option for hard towing but that HP is HP and in specific situations, that gasser will pull ahead of a diesel if it has more HP but you don't hear or understand that and get all offended.
If you had more HORSEPOWER, you wouldn't have been struggling to keep 35/40 mph. If my gas engine had more TORQUE, I wouldn't be looking at regearing to 4.56:1 for some of the insane highway on ramps in TX when we head out there.
When you calculate the max speed of a vehicle, it is ALL about horsepower. Torque has nothing to do with the top speed and all to do with how you accellerate to it.
I don't tow as heavy as you and not very often at that so I won't own a diesel. The truck sits in the driveway most of the time unless we need something from Lowes or it's vacation time. When we do pull the TT, I probably don't even hit 16k combined. If I did ever decide to go diesel, it sure as heck wouldn't be anything after '06 or so.
