ib516 wrote:
I had a 2001 Dodge 2500, 360 gas, 4.10 rear, 4x4, quad cab, short bed (whew!) a few tow vehicles ago. It was tough as nails, never let me down, pulled everything I hitched to it, but it drank unleaded at the rate of 4 - 7 mpg when pulling the RV. I replaced it with a 2002 Dodge 2500, 4x4, 5.9L Cummins, 3.55 axle, quad cab, long bed, and that truck got 11-13 mpg pulling the same RV, and it pulled it much more effortlessly.
I get the prize for the most commas used in one paragraph :)
The very reason I swapped to diesel a long time ago. And the life span of the eng.