Grit dog wrote:
I beleive you could put 4500lbs in the back of a new dually and not “need” a thing to haul it all day long.
That’s also a moot point. New 2500-5500 trucks will blow away the old iron in every conceivable aspect except simplicity.....and they’re not that much more difficult to work on imo.
I love older trucks but the comparison isn’t apples to apples. Things change.
You forgot cost effectiveness. I *could* go pay $75k for a pickup truck but I just can’t see doing that and it making sense. A new 3500 won’t actaully haul any more than any dually from the last 30 or 40 years, regardless of what rating number they hung on it. I carried a big camper and towed a 10,000 trailer (22,000 total) over the mountains between Seattle and Nevada countless times in a completely stock ‘86 crewcab dually, big block manual trans, and never had any trouble at all.
I still own that truck, it’s my zero-electronics backup for when any of my newer vehicles doesn’t run. It ALWAYS runs and has no problem with 4500 pounds in the bed.
The old rigs aren’t as fast but you can make ‘em as powerful as you want with a Cummins swap, if that matters. They even have kits nowadays, it’s pretty easy.
