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:
The pickup truck diesel engines will never last at their screaming 3000 rpm redlines.
A class 8 truck runs 2000 rpm. A diesel locomotive runs 1000 rpm. A container ship redlines at 100 rpm. These high speed light duty little truck diesels will surely fall apart with their high rpm operation.
On the other hand you diesel owners had better never ever fly in a plane. With the internal blades of the jet engines spinning 13,500 rpm it is a wonder they can even make one flight. Then the stupid engineers think that it is due for it's first overhaul at 20,000 hours of flight. Year every diesel head on here knows that it will fail in no time flat.
Well Red Line on my Cummins is 3,200 and I only see that on hard acceleration, pull a 6% grade at speed is about 2,200 in 4th (direct drive). :B
