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To: waterhill

Dodge with Cummins Diesel...get a pre 2008...better motor you can play with

old Powerstrokes are powerful but thirsty

Duramax...smooth...i’ll give them that...and come with Allison tranny

but my 2006 Dodge Mega Cab got 21 miles to gallon overall...a 3/4 tonne truck...and needed no chip to kick ass

new diesels in truck are like Porsche motors...totally trimmed out...not much you can do to them

and the new Cummins is not as strong...but still beats the comp

I’m old and have owned all trucks for 4 decades next year

and grew up in a hardcore 1950s/1960s GMC and International family

but my 2 cents on diesels


71 posted on 05/13/2012 11:04:25 AM PDT by wardaddy (I am a social conservative. My political party left me(again). They can go to hell in a bucket.)
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To: wardaddy

ahhh, international. Love me some international loadstars. Last friday I was wishing I had one. I had to move a 3 axle trailer that had been sitting for 12 years loaded with 25,000lbs. Wheels sunk into the ground. brakes rusty and stuck. Nothing I hitched up to it could budge it. I set two old lincoln pipliners on the back of a one ton chevy for traction, hitched it up...nothing. Then did the same with a Ford. Nothing.

those old loadstars where the bomb!


81 posted on 05/13/2012 11:27:45 AM PDT by mamelukesabre
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