Diesel vs gas......................

64thunderbolt wrote:
Depends on how often you want to rebuild the eng or buy a new truck.

My 13 year old V-10 F-250 is still running fine with 160,000 miles on the clock. Granted, the only "mountains" I've pulled were in West Texas and the Hill Country, but it's had a hard life otherwise with two teenage drivers breaking out in it. Lord only knows what they did when they were out at night...

64thunderbolt wrote:
As well as how you want to pull. 90% or more of my towing is between 1100' elev @ home and 7400' @ camp. So I see the gassers gasping on 10+ miles of 6/7% on 2 lane rd with a half mile jam behind them. Just a few passing lanes that are short and very limited places to pull over to allow the traffic go.

How many of those gasping gassers had the turbo I mentioned? If I recall, the naturally aspirated diesels used to own the slow lane. It was the turbo that made the difference, not the fuel.

64thunderbolt wrote:
Second. I don't wan't or need a new truck every 2 yrs. I've had mine about 8 yrs and plan on it being the last one I buy. I have only put 50K on it since purchased. At that rate it will surely out live me. No payment, high ins & tags for me. I'll spend the savings on fuel anf tow comfortably.

I keep mine a long time too. My '92 F-150 had 233,000 miles on it when I traded it in. They will all last a long time if you take care of 'em.

64thunderbolt wrote:
But everyones needs & desires are different. If not only one truck would be offered and we would miss all this fun conversation. Just remember to keep your gassers to the right please.

Yes, indeed. You just have to understand the difference between "needs" and "desires". When I buy my next truck it will be more about my desires than my needs. ;)