Cummins12V98 wrote:
travelnutz wrote:
The OP's thread subject is about the 2 millionth Cummins engine built for the Dodge/Ram not about how long it takes to change a water pump.
2 million engines is great for Cummins. However, spread out over their 24 years of production it's only 83,333 engines per year and that's not an impressive number. Their competition building diesels for their HD pickup trucks have built 1-1/2+ as many per year during their years of production build. Yes, even the Ford with the 6.0 and 6.4 PSD issues!
Give Cummins the credit they deserve but don't act like it's the did all end all as it is NOT!
The bigger question is of those 2 million engines what percentage are still living in the original truck or in another?
I personally have seen several Dodge trucks that were bought for the sole purpose of pulling the B Cummins for a swap into Ford SuperDuty, or 73~87 Chevy trucks. After the truck they come in are all used up the engines lend theirselves well to being rebuilt and serving a new role.
It is not any different than almost every Chevy 454, or Ford 460 that go on to serve new owners as drag race, or truck pulling engines, inboard boat motors, small block to big block swaps, and so on.
