Brand X dilemma

greg73cuda

greg73cuda

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thinking of getting a used dually to pull the 24' trailer. the 1500 quad 5.2 ram JUST barley gets the job done.

one thing i've found is that those duallys are not cheep. anyways i may have found a 98 chev that is mint with very low mileage for a diesel & loaded beyond belief.

i may have to buy it. keep in mind it gets to carry a cuda around.

greg73cuda
 
There's nothing wrong with that...

My 97 Neon resides next to my 97 Chev K1500 which sits in the same yard as the 96 donor Neon and the 84 S-10 that is the donor chassis for the 46 Chevy pickup....
which resides next to 12 Corvairs and 2 Omni's and an Astro van sitting in the shadow of the 73 D150 van....

Don't you see? Everything works together like one big HAPPY FAMILY [smilie=eggface.gif]
 
C.M.F. said:
.....12 Corvairs and 2 Omni's and an Astro van sitting in the shadow of the 73 D150 van....
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You related to Jamie?? [smilie=e:
 
Good God NO! [smilie=2: If you need a truck for towing bite the bullet and get a Cummins Ram.

The GM diesel makes a lovely doorstop IMO. [smilie=e:
 
greg73cuda said:
...barley gets the job done...
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I'll drink to that... though it gets some help from spring water, carbonation, and hops. [smilie=a:

Actually, I agree with beeper on the GM diesel. For whatever reason, it seems like they never really got that thing worked out the way they could have, whereas the Cummins was a long-proven engine by the time it made it into the Ram... and PowerStrokes aren't much better than the GM (hence the reason Ford's essentially giving up on them).

Stay with the family, I say. There are deals to be had if you're actively looking.
 
Hmmmmm...see the widdle one on the left? Thats the GM. [smilie=r:

Also the Cummins has a recommended overhaul at 400,000 miles. The GM will be junk [i]way[/i] before that.
 
Theres a guy here that has between him and his kids at least 9 blown up 6.2s lying around, he finally learned his lesson and bought a dodge with a cummins. I did a head gasket on one last summer with 300 thou on it and there was no ring ridge with good crosshatch showing still. Theres a reason they hold good resale value, they run forever if maintained. They also make a conversion kit to install one in a chev if you insist on running brand X. [smilie=e:
 
Duramax!?!?!?

<--- runs

The 6.2 was also a fine piece of crap, from what Ive heard. The one I looked at, certainly didn't qualify as heavy duty.

OTOH, Im gonna have to go against Jass (again) on this one, as Ive seen ALOT of people put ALOT of miles on 'strokes, with relatively no trouble...

A rich guy, I work with, bought one with 70K on it, and put 100K ruthless miles on it, with no troubles, but a starter, and alternator. Im talking powerbrake smokies, until the road in front of his house, looked like the starting line of the dragstrip... He has a Dodge now, but hasn't had it long enough to properly compare.

(this guy's killed 300 Ford sixes, 9" rears, 2 or 3 440s...well just about every engine he's ever had, 'cept a 460, and the Powerstroke) Ran down a deer, the other day, with the Dodge @ 75mph. The bumper's KOd, but the rest of the front looks suprisingly OK.

Certain years of them, seem to be fine. (the early non-turbo ones, and the newer down-sized versions have had problems) I think they had 'em to the point where they were pretty good, so they had to fvck 'em up :(

Id definitely say, from what I hear, the Cummins will last longer, tho. 200k seems to be about the limit for most powerstrokes, while I hear of Dodges with 300K on 'em quite often.

The six bangers get better mileage, too, from what Ive seen/heard...

-M
 
Powerstrokes have ther fair share of problems too, The first one to come to mind is the wiring harness that doubles as a valve cover gasket. My boss has an 01 that get thrashed regularly, so far the frame has broken, the rear diff has grenaded twice, trannie once, brakes went away 3 times and when he went to pick it up new it wouldnt start because the ECM took a dump. Meanwhile the other partners 91 dodge just keeps on truckin,did all new leaf springs and a head gasket last summer and a reman turbo 2 yrs ago, he high centered it on some railroad tracks and busted the trannie case but that was driver error. Ive heard that the duramaxs are screamers though-Isuzu based which is owned by GM. [smilie=e:
 
beeper*71 said:
Hmmmmm...see the widdle one on the left? Thats the GM. [smilie=r: [/quote]

I'd like to see that picture with a 440 rod included, so I can compare the diesel rods to a rod of known size.
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marc,

None of that stuff sounds like an engine problem, to me. If we're gonna get into the whole truck, then we're gonna get into the stories Ive heard of Cummins with blowed up trannies...must be a reason the auto trans cummins is down-rated hp-wise.

Not to mention the seat, in our friend's older one ('90?'91?) that was designed by the Marquis deSade...

We'll also stay away from the masterful job BOTH companies did, of producing front axles worthy of the scrap heap!! (Dodge even managed to ruin the Dana60 front!!!)(F350 D60 is OK)

I don't doubt that the '01 SD has blown the trans, and diffs. They (Ford) changed the trans in '01 to a piece of crap. Thats mostly what I meant by having them pretty good, and deciding to fvck them up. After having such success at ruining the trans, they moved on to the engine, and devised the 6.0L turd.

Sounds like the boss is pretty hard on the equipment :)

There's a duramax here, that has had the heads off three times, in the first year. (They have aluminum heads [smilie=2: ) Dealer basically told the owner to get bent (offered him next to nothing as trade-in value) when he tried to get out from under it.

-M
 
If you go over to Geno's garage the first thing they tell you is no mods for automatics period. Its not the horsepower it the torque that eats parts. The roads we run on were originally built by loggers with holt 30s and similar equipment, you can still find steam donkeys abandoned in the woods and parts of railroad tracks from the 1800s. We ARE hard on pickups too-Ive never seen almost new stuff thats worn out before I moved here back in the mid 80s but the terrain is hard on stuff. Its possible to get good or bad in any brand. Ive even seen a few good chevies. Dont repeat that. Please [smilie=e:
 
I had a ??91 F 350 powerstroke that I beat upon, and it never flinched. had almost 400k when it was sold. Pulled a 31 foot 5th wheel full of cast iron on a weekly basis.
The Duramax is a pretty cool unit, though I have never towed with it. The older Gm diesels where probably totally fine for occasionally pulling a trailer, so why sweat it. Yah ain't marrying it! :)
 
well...today I heard some great news...

Apparently, there's a nut, in the Dodge 5 spd that somewhat commonly comes loose, and backs off, while rolling down the road, in OD. Supposedly, this affects the earlier cummins-powered trucks.

When this happens...BLAM!!!! shrapnel-city tranny.

[smilie=2:


Just heresay, but if I were gonna buy one, Id probly look for info on that. But I already got a piece of crap, to tow my junk.

Someone needs to make something thats stone-axe reliable, for all us stone-axe kinda guys.

-M
 
xlr8r said:
I had a ??91 F 350 powerstroke that I beat upon, and it never flinched. had almost 400k when it was sold. Pulled a 31 foot 5th wheel full of cast iron on a weekly basis.
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The F250, I mentioned was a '93, with a 7.3 PSD swapped in. I think a '91 would have been the non-turbo 7.3L.

In any event, it seems that some people get the good stuff, while others end up with garbage.

Unfortunately, I seem to end up in category #2... :(


-M
 
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