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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Taco wrote:
So now you have to be either rich or a mechanic to own a new diesel.
A few decades ago the big rigs were gas powered and they seem to get the job done so I suppose with the right transmission and rear end the v10 would do just fine with 38k provided you were willing to buy the fuel.
If you consider a 7 year old truck a new truck then yes you better become a mechanic. Changing the injectors on a motor is hardly a mechanic.
To give a little story about the so called mechanics at my local F dealer. I called the service department one day to ask a question about checking the cylinder pressures on a 6.0 diesel. The response I got was to pull the spark plugs and use a compression tester. :/ This is a true story, cross my heart and hope to.....
I called parts for a crank case breather for the same motor and was told they didn't put one on the 6.0.
So , pay $100 an hour for that kind of service or do it myself? It's not rocket science. Most people on here are rocket scientist anyway, surely they can remember righty tighty lefty loosie.
How much did it cost to have the plugs changed in a Triton 5.4 when the plugs broke off in the head when changing it? What about when it blew the plug out of the head and the head had to be replaced?
