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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wnjj wrote:DWeikert wrote:
I made the trip before with a gas engine and just a cap on the back to sleep under and it was far from stress free. Between the truck searching for a gear on modest slopes, to keeping an eye on engine temps trying to pull the the mountain passes out west then hoping I don't burn up the brakes keeping speed under control on the downhill side, not to mention the pathetic gas mileage, as long as I have a camper I'll have a diesel.
If you had all those issues with only a cap on the back, there was something terribly wrong with your truck.
No, it was just the way the truck was geared and how it responded to loads. In hindsight I realize I probably could have minimized the gear searching buy downshifting out of overdrive when I approached any grades. But I have yet to need to do that when I made the trip in a diesel. Anybody that hasn't worried about engine temp when climbing mountain passes at speed in summertime hasn't done so in a pickup or RV with with a gas engine. Likewise anybody that thinks a gas engine has a decent engine break has never driven a diesel.
