Why diesel trucks?
Judging from my other two posts a lot of folks that responded drive DRW diesel trucks to carry the heavier multi slide campers. I understand the DRW for heavier payload but why diesel? Just looking at...
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azdryheat wrote:
If gas engines were so awesome wouldn't they be in the larger motorhomes? It's all about torque, which gas engines can't deliver on.
Except the driving force behind the big heavy duty engines is commercial fleets. RV's just utilize whatever is built for them because they aren't a big enough market to justify an RV specific engine.
Commercial trucks are typically heavier and more importantly, they do anywhere from 30-100k miles per year. They choose diesel due to fuel efficiency primarily (doubly so 30yr ago when diesel was 30% less per gallon)
You can build a gas engine that will have the power and longevity of a diesel but there is no market for it because diesels save money on fuel for commercial operators...of course the typical RV doing something on the order of 2-10k miles per year will never get that benefit.
For a truck camper not towing a boat or similar...as mentioned, a gas V6 is plenty of power. Without some other justification, it's mostly about ego.
