Jarlaxle wrote:
Yeah, you only need head studs, new gaskets, and a redesigned EGR system. And you, again, consider it acceptable that needing to do this just to ensure basic reliability is acceptable. Absolutely incredible. Were you also highly satisfied with your Yugo?
Never owned a Yugo.
Of course, if you were to check the thread topics on this forum, you would find good and bad about any truck, be it Duramax, Cummins, or International/Ford powered. There's one active now regarding a Duramax engine blowing a head gasket after it went over 100K miles.
Go back a bit and you'll find stories of Dodge/RAM trucks that eat their transmissions. The point is, anything made by the hand of man can and often WILL fail.
My point regarding my truck is that I've had it since it was new. The engine was running fine when the EGR cooler blew. I could have spent less than $1000 on just a oil cooler and EGR. I knew its service history. I wouldn't know that about a replacement truck unless I bought another new truck at $65K. But I added some items that improved the trucks systems while I had it on the rack. Everything else other than the oil cooler and EGR cooler were optional installations.
Reading the latest issue of Diesel Power, the editor mention the very same thing, nothing comes out with zero defects, no matter who makes it. If I want to spend as little or as much as I want for increased reliability, that's my business.
Finally, I do not consider the failure of an emissions control part to equate to the failure of an engine. You seem to. Tell me, do you buy a new truck when the brakes need to be replaced? Trash it when you need to change the oil? Bad mouth it when the alternator goes south?
