looking for a newer truck

[biglentil]

Haha, ya the old 6 litres were among the worst engines in history as far as gas mileage, they were reliable however.

Pick your poison go gas and have good reliability and low teens fuel mileage. Or go diesel and Powerstroke, Cummins or Duramax yourself into a maintenance and service nightmare due to emissions crap. Def pumps, Egr coolers always end up leaking eventually, Egr valves stick due to carbon, intakes and sensors fill with soot, Oil always black, 20000 psi Injectors, ceramic 'speed' glow plugs, and expensive variable vane turbos. Pay for gas or pay for shop time with diesel. In the winter you pay for both. List price on a new F350 diesel is beyond 100k now. I drive gassers and wrench on diesels.

[sofa.king]

I have an lml duramax did a delete on Def fluid and put in a chip if you drive it normal fuel mileage isn't too bad and the only problem has been a couple glow plugs and gm extended warranty on them to 190000 km or 10 years.

[Ronski]

I've had a couple chev 6.0 and now have a 2015 f350 powerstroke. Have a darkroom (narrow camper type box thats 24 inches above the cab) that weighs approx 2000 lbs. 80,000 km now and 1800 idling hours (no choice it needs to run at work). Mileage since day 1 including idling is 19l/100km. When driving its 14-17 at 120 km depending on fuel supplier, chev gas trucks were 22-25 with same load No maintainance issues yet and I got extended warranty to 160km just in case. I'm going to delete it when the warranty is up though.

[stonepicker]

Not a big ford fan, but i still have a 96 F-250 with a 7.3 L diesel. It rattles and bangs but it has to be one of the toughest diesel motors ever put in a truck. ( dodge cummins also good)

[Klause]

'88 Chevy 350 half a million km
'95 Chevy 1500 with a 6.5 diesel half a million km.

2003 Chevy 6.0 half a million km
2003 Chevy duramax new injectors 420,000 km.


Original engines in all but the 350.


The two 2003s pull trailers around 30,000 lbs...

Duramax has the best fuel milage but the 6.0 with a throttle body spacer cold air kit and chip and 285 rubber gets about 15 mpg. Duramax 17.


This is empty. Pulling they are down to 6 mpg.

[Partners]

On another site it was stated that if you drive Ford you have 1 truck. Drive a GM and you usually have more more than 1 truck in the yard.

We only have 1 f150.works like a truck..rides better than most cars.
And has never been in the shop for repairs.

[Guest]

I run a chev 1/2 ton for nice ride and drive and a dodge ,2001, 250 diesel(330k , km) . good work truck but back breaker . and costs a lot to keep on the road every year . will pull and haul , though . guess you're right , partners !

[farming101]

Off topic but I must comment about our older Ford half ton.
It's a funny little truck. Knobs falling off the controls, wiper motor has a mind of its own, has a 5 speed overdrive but reverse at idle is 15 mph, 302FI is a funny little motor, wanders all over the road. But everyone enjoys driving it. Funny

[tweaker101]

Thanks for all the info, I guess the last work truck I had of the diesel type was a old 7.3 if I remember like a 89?... it ran for ever...it shook rattled and smoked but always ran and was gutless, maybe the new trucks are pushing to hard to make the crazy horsepower and yes all the emission stuff dont help either. Im thinking of just going gas as its like death and taxes its going to get you sooner or later and leave the diesel trucks on the dealers lot.