Duramax is king of the mountain again

Huntindog wrote:

blt2ski wrote:
Are we done with the boyz will be boyz comments!

Why can't some of you just admit, ALL brands of trucks, cars etc that we drive on the road are better than when some of us were teens in the 50's, 60's and 70's! Even 10 years ago models were lower in all things comparable to todays models!

Marty

Of course all trucks are more powerful than those of yesteryear.... but even in the old days, some were faster than others.:B

Just because they are faster, does not make them the best! had a truck that was faster doing a 12K load up a freeway grade then another! But put said faster truck on a 15+% grade, it stalled out and would not go forward, Meanwhile the slower truck on a freeway grade, Went up the hill! Got to a job site, campground etc. The other blew up a transmission, spent 2 weeks in shop, cost $3000 to repair transmission that had all of 30K miles on it!

Fastest is not always best. BUT< the one that gets the job done with out stalling out before getting to where it needs to go under any and all conditions, is the BEST truck! Yeah, even if it is a bit slower in some parts of the course!

I'll take my Navistar with a 175/330 non turbo 7.3 diesel over my dmax when I'm above 20K lbs. The dmax will only go up a 24% grade at 20K. The navistar will do over 30% at 30K lbs. Yes a freeway grade the navistar is doing 35-40 mph, the dmax 55+. BUT, I can go up steeper grades which occur here in the NW.

At the end of the day, I want a truck, hammer, what ever the tool is, that gets the that job done, as I need it to do, even if slower at times. If the one that is faster, overheats, stalls out, needs fixing every 4 hrs vs lasting 6 hrs that the job will take. the slower one is better.

Marty