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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transamz9 wrote:Jarlaxle wrote:Steakman wrote:
Wow... I cannot believe that this thread is still ongoing...been through 3 different trailers since I first posted on it..LOL.
Well all I can add at this time is that now, at 250,000 miles, many a gasser would be sitting by the wayside...and I can say with good certainty, my truck will still be pulling whatever trailer I have well into the future. $ for $, and if you can afford the up front cost & know your way around a set of metric wrenches, diesel is the way to go - handsdown.
The one thing I would really like to see in our country and province in particular is a set of regulations ensuring that those that pull, are pulling with a vehicle designed to pull said trailer and have the proper hitching system installed and in use.
Too often on the Highways of Alberta and BC I see a Front Wheel drive SUV pulling a ~23+ trailer and even though it may be set up with a Class IV hitch, the thing is usually weighed down by passengers (wife+kids) 4 bikes on the back and to me looks like an accident waiting to happen.
my $ .02 at this stage of the thread. I'll be back....
stk
I watched a gasser go lots of miles in one of the toughest applications out there: an F-550 repo truck. Engine was replaced with 553,000 miles.
How is that a tough application? Hook a 25,000# cattle trailer to it and run it for 553,000 miles and see how many motors you put in it.
A lot more than 50% I would say were empty miles. The past 50K on mine have been about 90% with a 12+K touhauler towing in the mtns in extreem heat. Doesn't compare.
