bmanning wrote:
Spleenstomper wrote:
Supercharged wrote:
I would think the sales should be over soon. I'm so gland I got a gas model again. I feel sorry the boys who just can't do the math and end up with the high cost of RVing. Then all those espenes parts and brake shoes.They say it will climb to over a $1oo higher soon.
I bought a diesel for tow capacity AND the fact that I'll still drive it when it has 200k miles on the engine.
Nothing untrue about what you said, but for a modern gasoline truck engine, 200k miles is nothing.
I remember when I was a kid, often motors were tired and wheezing at 75k miles and it was almost rare to see one untouched over 100k miles. Times have certainly changed for the better.
I remember back in the '60's...valve jobs were done on engines...not unusual back then.
Vehicles always had to have spring and winter tune ups...points and plugs, check the timing, adjust the carb. Modern day technology has done away with that stuff.
I recall carrying a screwdriver in the car...wasn't unusual to have to take the air cleaner off , stick the screw driver into the carb to jam open the 'butterfly' valve (as we called it)...to get a flooded engine to start....particularly in the winter.
Geez...am I happy to have fuel injection. :B
