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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Hannibal wrote:
I was mistaken once before. I thought for a moment I was wrong but I was mistaken. And yes I would take you up in your challenge. Me towing my trailer and you towing yours and we'll see who holds up more traffic. As I've said many times. If I were towing heavy in the Rocky's, it would be with my 5th Cummins Ram. Definitely not my old 250hp Cummins road block. Not a chance with my '95 160hp slug. It was on it's knees holding up traffic in the Blue Ridge ripples. Even my lethargic 5.4 does better.
They have all come a long way. But I'm happy with my old 7.3 tuned very well and gets it done. No way I'm gonna pay more for a truck than my home. I'm almost 64 & with 158K on the truck. I run less than 10K per year so barring a catastrofic failure it will last longer than I will be needing it.
With the right trailer in the right terrain a gasser may be fine for some but towing on the grades I do almost every time I go a diesel is best. I live @ 1100' elev and camp @ 7400'. Have a few LONG 6/7% on 2 lanes. But when it's approaching 120* here in the valley it's nice to get away for a few days @ 70/80*. In the old days I had an F350 cc with a 460. Boy was that thing thirsty. Towed ok but nowhere near the 7.3.
