the ford....
Dearborn has had a very hard time building a truck that works.
in 92 or so, someone in corporate decided a ford could be cheaper, less reliable, last half as long, and have engines that die long b4 the body is shot. charge twice as much, and sell every truck they made.
boy, were they right...
the 7.3 psd, leaker, smokey, noisy as hell.
the 6.0 great little engine after $5K of fixing ford's stupid ideas.
6.4 oh, can we forget that one?
now the 6.7.
there are two new 550's with new engines under warranty here in this cowboys neighborhood. another with a turbo at 80K.
so... are we waltzing down the merry path we did with the GM not-so-duramax. how many iterations of that engine with massive problems? we were the beta test clowns that shouted, with our hands full of dollars , to have the newest "test vehicle"
then the cummins. rock solid , bullet proof, no bombproof. Attached to a company that is not sure its going to be in business year to year.
But lots of innovative ideas; coil springs that work....rear view mirrors that work, and last i heard, the only manual transmission still available behind a diesel..
the people that brought us Real Heavy Duty drivetrain; we could always count on mopar for that. Except front axles, and steering and frames that broke...you get the idea.
MY POINT: ferget the Diesel. its an experiment that went wrong, was great fun when fuel was cheap, when DEQ did not mean DEF. When we did not use a truck as a car, and trucks were not built like cars:
Bench seats, manual transmissions, manual transfer case shifters, rubber mats, sliding rear windows,
Dearborn was right, we will pay anything to have everything ...even if its nothing at all worth having.
