Diesel vs gas for truck campers?
Have posted a few questios phere on the truck camper forum asking for help in down sizing to a TC and thanks for the help so far, I have been going over the weights of the TC's that we have looked at...
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The solution to all of that is a manual transmission. They are more durable in virtually every way, even if they don't have the name "Allison" on the side.
The Allison transmission in the pickups has to be the biggest marketing scheme ever. Allison is a subsidiary of GM, and the parts in the transmission that comes in the pickup share nothing with their commercial/heavy duty automatics that come in tracked vehicles and medium/heavy trucks.
I'm sure the transmission is great, but the real Allisons don't have park. The one in the pickups is there because its name sells pickup trucks.
But I don't drive automatics, so I guess I won't be able to get a new truck and will just have to make mine live forever. Which, honestly, given the current cost of new trucks and such, I'm okay with that.
An automatic transmission would never be the solution to make a better pickup truck to me. A 7, 8, or 9 speed manual transmission with at least two overdrives would be excellent, however.
Automatics are fine if you prefer to give up the durability for convenience.
The Allison transmission in the pickups has to be the biggest marketing scheme ever. Allison is a subsidiary of GM, and the parts in the transmission that comes in the pickup share nothing with their commercial/heavy duty automatics that come in tracked vehicles and medium/heavy trucks.
I'm sure the transmission is great, but the real Allisons don't have park. The one in the pickups is there because its name sells pickup trucks.
But I don't drive automatics, so I guess I won't be able to get a new truck and will just have to make mine live forever. Which, honestly, given the current cost of new trucks and such, I'm okay with that.
An automatic transmission would never be the solution to make a better pickup truck to me. A 7, 8, or 9 speed manual transmission with at least two overdrives would be excellent, however.
Automatics are fine if you prefer to give up the durability for convenience.
