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Redwoodcamper wrote:
I agree Dodge had some pretty poor steering. I've changed alot of steering boxes and put braces in. But I can't remember hearing of them leaving someone stranded. There are literally hundreds of cases of Chevy wheels pointing at each other. It's hilarious actually.
Witnessed it at the Diesel drags, the guy made it about 50' off the line. It was an gawd awful site!Me Again wrote:
Yep, the Ford Twin I-beam was flawless for years and drove straight down the road, NOT!
HAAA Reminds me of my Dad's 67 Ford they could NOT get it to make its past 20K on a set of tires. They bent the #^%& out of the I beams with no luck and even replaced the steering box. My 69 drove great and tires wore well. **** shoot I guess.Me Again wrote:
Yep, the Ford Twin I-beam was flawless for years and drove straight down the road, NOT!
You mean the suspension that drove across a plowed field 11 times ? At wide open throttle?
- milagro bean field war - Charles Bronson.
They bought 10 F150 's figuring one trip per take ,but they used the same one as many times as they needed.- I agree Dodge had some pretty poor steering. I've changed alot of steering boxes and put braces in. But I can't remember hearing of them leaving someone stranded. There are literally hundreds of cases of Chevy wheels pointing at each other. It's hilarious actually.
FishOnOne wrote:
Redwoodcamper wrote:
Or maybe you don't get it. Some of you may not need the higher tow ratings or haven't truly towed heavy with your trucks. GM completely takes themselves out of the hot shot truck market, and takes themselves mostly out of the heavy equipment market by rating their trucks so low. I agree holding the "title" of highest tow ratings is stupid and useless. No pissing contest needed. But if your truck is capable of something why take yourself out of the foundation of the truck market? It's like inviting customers that won't use them hard. There are exceptions. And I actually really like the way they are to ride and drive. If I could afford to drive a truck for 150k miles and trade in or pay someone to work on it I would buy a Duramax over my ram. But for being a truck, when I'm towing two pieces of equipment up a steep gravel driveway axle hopping with 4500lbs of tongue weight and 275k miles on my truck, there is no question which truck takes the beating and which would be broken. The dmax front end would have been in pieces if I even got there towing illegally over the truck ratings.
From a safety recall standpoint the Chevy hasn't had the crazy NSHT fines on their front suspensions like the dodge/ram trucks. Ram recalls aside, front suspension work is a full time job in a ram/Chrysler shop.
Full time job in which world? Good grief, Fish....- Yep, the Ford Twin I-beam was flawless for years and drove straight down the road, NOT!
Redwoodcamper wrote:
Or maybe you don't get it. Some of you may not need the higher tow ratings or haven't truly towed heavy with your trucks. GM completely takes themselves out of the hot shot truck market, and takes themselves mostly out of the heavy equipment market by rating their trucks so low. I agree holding the "title" of highest tow ratings is stupid and useless. No pissing contest needed. But if your truck is capable of something why take yourself out of the foundation of the truck market? It's like inviting customers that won't use them hard. There are exceptions. And I actually really like the way they are to ride and drive. If I could afford to drive a truck for 150k miles and trade in or pay someone to work on it I would buy a Duramax over my ram. But for being a truck, when I'm towing two pieces of equipment up a steep gravel driveway axle hopping with 4500lbs of tongue weight and 275k miles on my truck, there is no question which truck takes the beating and which would be broken. The dmax front end would have been in pieces if I even got there towing illegally over the truck ratings.
From a safety recall standpoint the Chevy hasn't had the crazy NSHT fines on their front suspensions like the dodge/ram trucks. Ram recalls aside, front suspension work is a full time job in a ram/Chrysler shop.- I've towed 30,000 lb trailers with my old 03 Duramax 2500 and have not had any trouble with the front end. Everything else on that old Duramax has been absolute junk. I doubt overloading it has had much to do with all its problems....No door locks no a/c no pwr windows, battery goes dead, transmission problems,no radio, engine over heats
Redwoodcamper wrote:
The dmax front end would have been in pieces if I even got there towing illegally over the truck ratings.
It is not illegal to tow over the manufacturers rating.
It is illegal to tow over the weight you registered the truck for.- Or maybe you don't get it. Some of you may not need the higher tow ratings or haven't truly towed heavy with your trucks. GM completely takes themselves out of the hot shot truck market, and takes themselves mostly out of the heavy equipment market by rating their trucks so low. I agree holding the "title" of highest tow ratings is stupid and useless. No pissing contest needed. But if your truck is capable of something why take yourself out of the foundation of the truck market? It's like inviting customers that won't use them hard. There are exceptions. And I actually really like the way they are to ride and drive. If I could afford to drive a truck for 150k miles and trade in or pay someone to work on it I would buy a Duramax over my ram. But for being a truck, when I'm towing two pieces of equipment up a steep gravel driveway axle hopping with 4500lbs of tongue weight and 275k miles on my truck, there is no question which truck takes the beating and which would be broken. The dmax front end would have been in pieces if I even got there towing illegally over the truck ratings.
