I'd like to buy a 36 ft used Winnebago Journey. For the price I can afford, there are two engines available, Cat 7.2 liter or Cummins 5.9 liter. Do you think one is significantly better than the other? My main concers are power in the hills and reliability.
CAT! And there is plenty of parts available and CAT is still currently making Highway engines, just not in the U.S. ! I drove them my whole working career and swear by CAT engines. Worst milage that ever got out of a CAT before a in frame was 750,000 miles the best was 1.2 million! That speaks for itself!
Did Cat stopped making over the highway engines? I don't know much about it, but I prefer to have something that can be service from more places than the other one.
DownTheAvenue wrote: The Cummins 5.9 may not have as much power as the Cat, but I think the Cummins is a better choice. It is absolutely bullet proof, and more places are equipped to ork on the Cummins as the Cat. Capable Cat service centers will continue to decline since Cat is no longer in over the road engines.
Perhaps in the long term but Cummins dealers also service Cat just as well. A gazillion of them out there.
The Cummins 5.9 may not have as much power as the Cat, but I think the Cummins is a better choice. It is absolutely bullet proof, and more places are equipped to ork on the Cummins as the Cat. Capable Cat service centers will continue to decline since Cat is no longer in over the road engines.
