Buying a Used Diesel Truck

45Ricochet wrote:

wintersun wrote:

For towing the GM and Ford have been the best in terms of exhaust brake performance (corrected with 2013 and later Ram trucks) and transmission durability. So tell me exactly when Ford and GM offered a exhaust brake? Ram offered it in 2006, a Jacobs, who also offered it in OTR rigs although a totally different concept. Ford EB has been a joke and that is why they are changing it in 2015, finally.

I have used both Consumer Reports Now that there explains everything about your opinion. Ask the washer and toaster expert's their opinions. which does an annual survey of 100% of their members vehicles and industry repair shop numbers to evaluate different year and model trucks.

Engines are also only a piece of the equation. If the cooling system or AC or electricals or brakes or transmission are not reliable it also costs for the repairs and may entail a breakdown while towing which is the last thing you want.

Buy a diesel for the greater torque and the exhaust brake capability but don't but one for greater reliability. Pretty sure the Cummin's guy's will disagree with that statement. We have several member's still pulling strong with over 250K miles on the ticker. And don't compare the engines used in semi's to those put in pickups. Even the Cummins engines used in pickups are very different. Not really other than size, still a little slant six!

Well Wintersun you have some seriously mixed up facts!

# 1 I know that the Jachobs exhaust brake was offered on my 01 Ram. mine didn't have one so I installed a Pacbrake.
# 2 the Cummins is a much stronger engine than the Ford and GM, the is why it is so heavy
#3 There are many Cummins 5.9's with many more miles than mine, I am only at 268,000 miles.