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    Gas vs Diesel

    Well, one is a turbo diesel with 1000 ft-lbs of torque and the other is not, so of course there's a difference. People think a gas v8 turning 4200 rpm for 20 minutes is horrible for it, but wouldn't hesitate to run an outboard motor around at 4200 rpm everywhere it goes It's whole life. Both...
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    Rear coil spring too stiff

    As others have said, dropping tire pressure when the truck is unloaded will give immediate significant improvement.
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    Considering a Hemi Powered 2500

    Yea, no 7500 pound 4x4 truck with a huge gas burner and the aerodynamics of a pallet of bricks will be good on fuel. My '18 6.2 Ford would do as good as 18 mpg if I babied it enough, but 15 was about all you could ask of it unloaded. That's as good as I've ever seen from a gasser HD truck. I...
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    Considering a Hemi Powered 2500

    I know of quite a few of them, mostly 6.4's. They are all fleet trucks though and they idle a whollleeeeeeeeee lot. And they don't all crap out either, it seems random. The trucks are all used exactly the same and we haven't been able to correlate it to anything specific. I can't imagine any...
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    Considering a Hemi Powered 2500

    Get it. I'm of the opinion that the cam and lifter failures predominantly affect fleet vehicles with high idle times. I wouldn't worry about it. If you are going to worry about it, get something else. Unfortunately there isn't an HD truck option out there that doesn't have something to worry about.
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    Gas vs Diesel

    You got me crossed with somebody else. I'd never recommend a diesel for this use case.
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    Gas vs Diesel

    Yea, that. Yall are nuts.
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    Gas vs Diesel

    Sounds like you might actually need a diesel. The majority of people purchasing for private ownership do not, and do some extreme mental gymnastics to justify having one after they've paid for it. Just say it's worth the money to outrun traffic up the hill and not hit the brakes going down...
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    Gas vs Diesel

    Because lots of people are fine with spending $10k extra to go faster, and have owned 2 or 3 trucks at the most with a couple hundred thousand "mostly trouble free" miles between the lot of them. Use whatever math you like to justify it to your wife. I'm telling you, best case financially is a...
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    Gas vs Diesel

    Until you get the ding, and speed reduced in 250 miles message when 500 miles in to your 2600 mile camping trip. That one single thing alone should discourage a lot of people from paying the exorbitant price for the diesel engine. Gas engines don't have that feature.
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    Gas vs Diesel

    Yea, I knew it was going to be unpopular when I said it. It always is. Gas is the right choice. The reliability is better, Capex is better, opex is better. If it can do the job required it's the right choice in 2024. There's always a bunch of immediate anecdotes of 3 year old trucks with zero...
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    Gas vs Diesel

    I can tell you that my 2500 diesel towing a 6000lb boat on flat ground gets about 13 mpg round trip. 21ish mpg unloaded. Dragging a 10k lb trailer 75 mph across Colorado, about 10.5 mpg. At $1+ a gallon more than gas, it takes a bunch of miles to get ahead. One SCR failure, or injector failure...
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    Gas vs Diesel

    There are absolutely a bunch of 4500 and 5500 gas burner trucks out there hauling very heavy stuff all the time. Big rigs and hot shot trucks are on the road hooked up all the time. Service trucks are by and large gas burners. They cost less up front and cost less to operate. OP is talking...
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    Gas vs Diesel

    How old is it and how many miles? DEF has issues with long term storage above ~80*F. Unless you live in an ideal climate for it, you're going to have issues if you aren't burning through it or replacing it often enough. I do this for a living. If the diesel was the right choice, fleets...
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    Gas vs Diesel

    Man that is low. I'm going to be an outlier here but I'd get a 3500 gas burner dually. The upfront cost of the diesel is never going to be recouped. At such low mileage, you're likely to run into issues associated with DEF degradation like fouled sensors and clogged lines and injectors. You...
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    For the guys who think deactivating the mds via a tune is a good idea

    Ram would never in a billion years allow the data on lifter and cam failures to become public, so you're stuck with the opinions of people willing to give them. I know of quite a few fleet trucks with 6.4's waiting on engines over this, and I'd never consider one because of it. That said, I...
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    2022 Cummins Regen Issues

    Well since you opened the can, there's a few corrections needed. Don't take it the wrong way, trying to make sure the information out there is accurate. Some of your understanding of how this works is crossed up. DEF is injected at a rate determined largely by the NOx tables in the engine...
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    2022 Cummins Regen Issues

    Cummins doesn't use exhaust injectors. The exhaust temperature is raised in cylinder. The added fuel and added heat is definitely hard on oil. Riding around in perpetual regen is very hard on everything.
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    2011 6.7 Low oil pressure, low coolant, and over full on dipstick

    Got an update?
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    2017-2018 2500/3500 brake system issues

    Sounds like there's a few people here who don't own a 2018 HD truck. This issue is a really big deal and it's complete BS that stelantis hasn't done anything about it.
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    Cummins Killer Bolt.

    Now this is something that certainly warrants discussion.
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    Dear Ram,

    You could be like us lowly 2018 owners who didn't have the option for a bigger fuel tank at all.
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    Cummins Killer Bolt.

    I've never heard of one failing inside of warranty. Since it's an internal engine part I don't see how it wouldn't be covered. Keep in mind, that same grid heater design is used on every 6.7 out there with a heater. Ram trucks, garbage trucks, school busses, standby generators, the list goes on...
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    HD rear Coil Spring "Upgrade"

    Did you find the bags made a big difference? I've been kicking around getting some for mine. I know they made my half ton farm truck (which always got very dramatically overloaded) a whole different truck.
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    Hemi tick: at least partly metallurgical

    Good thread here. Cool to see someone preemptively ripping into an engine to see what's in there. Oil flakes in the pan is not unusual at all. It isn't going to show in the oil analysis unless the sample contains suspended wear particles. Blackstone won't know there were chunks in the pan or...

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