Who has the oldest Tow Vehicle in service?

roverdover wrote:

Lessmore wrote:

roverdover wrote:
1998 3500SS Chevy. Not that unusual, except it has the 6.5 Detroit. Pulling a Chaparral 5vr. Has 268,000 on her. I have had to put two starters on since having it. Everyone told me to pass on truck due to Detroit. But it has been reliable. Does a good job pulling the 5vr.

I always thought the 6.2 and 6.5 liter Detroits were reliable. Didn't thy use the 6.5 Detroit Diesel in the military version of the Humvee for many years ?

I understand there are some in marine use.

The 6.5 had some issues with the injector, a crank sensor going out.....a number of us had motors that lasted about 110-130K miles, then they literally blew up. Mine was 105K just out of warranty. I seem to recall one starter on warranty a week after coming home. One alternator. I replaced all the injectors at 120K or so for maybe $500 on my own.....
BUT, even at that, at times I still wish I had it! I like the body style etc of those years better than my 05. Now we are into personal opinions. One can also for very little money, fix the issues with them, unlike the issues Ford caused with the navistar 6.0/6.4 motors. Altho at this point in time, ANY of the issues with all three of these motors are so well known, have excellent KNOWN fixes, that if one like to wrench, go for it. The 6.5 can be built up into the mid 200 to close to 300 hp fairly easy. 400hp is attainable with twin turbos from Penneinsular diesel in upstate Michigan at one time. Then again, they were doing the same hp setups with the old IHC IDI7.3 too!

as far as old, my oldest at this time is my 92 IHC with an idi 7.3 producing a whopping 175/335 hp torque spec, has 140K, still pulls upwards of 12K, loads to 14K, 26k total lbs.

Marty