Adventurous
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Well good people, it's official.
DSC_3956 by Tim Souza, on Flickr
2017 Ram 3500 4x4, crew cab long bed with the 6.7L Cummins. Taco is still in the family and I'm contemplating just hanging onto it since I'm most of the way through the loan anyway.
After much consideration, I decided to go down this road for several reasons. The first, and perhaps the driving factor, was the pending sale of our house and the ensuing road trip. While the trailer was the plan for that, the more our itinerary shaped up, the more limiting dragging a trailer around became. There are a number of times when having a trailer along during our adventures would have resulted in a miserable time backing out of a Forest Service road with no place to turn around and either no way, or too many challenges to go forward. Not to mention the plan for the trailer had morphed away from the rudimentary build I was once planning and the desired end goal was a state beyond my realm of knowledge, especially considering our time frame. So I did what I wanted (and was convinced otherwise) from the beginning, got the one ton truck and will be getting the slide in camper. I recognize that there will be places I want to, and could otherwise have visited if I had the Taco, but the gamble is that the new truck will get me *most* places and the others will be little more than a bicycle ride or hike away from. I'm not sure there was a "right" choice, but I've made peace with the choice I've made.
So this isn't goodbye by any means, I'll still hang around this forum, but I may not be as active, especially as we prepare to depart. I'll be sure to update this thread with a link so those interested can follow along with our adventures!
While the additional emissions equipment was a definite downside of going with the diesel, for my needs the pros outweighed the cons. That was one of the reasons I chose the Cummins over the other two, it represented a great powertrain in a good truck, while the Ford was a good trucks with a good powertrains (didn't like the Chevy). We'll see if that move pays off, I sprung for the 6 year/100,000 mile bumper to bumper warranty, so I should be covered if anything other than wear parts die within that time frame.
DSC_3956 by Tim Souza, on Flickr2017 Ram 3500 4x4, crew cab long bed with the 6.7L Cummins. Taco is still in the family and I'm contemplating just hanging onto it since I'm most of the way through the loan anyway.
After much consideration, I decided to go down this road for several reasons. The first, and perhaps the driving factor, was the pending sale of our house and the ensuing road trip. While the trailer was the plan for that, the more our itinerary shaped up, the more limiting dragging a trailer around became. There are a number of times when having a trailer along during our adventures would have resulted in a miserable time backing out of a Forest Service road with no place to turn around and either no way, or too many challenges to go forward. Not to mention the plan for the trailer had morphed away from the rudimentary build I was once planning and the desired end goal was a state beyond my realm of knowledge, especially considering our time frame. So I did what I wanted (and was convinced otherwise) from the beginning, got the one ton truck and will be getting the slide in camper. I recognize that there will be places I want to, and could otherwise have visited if I had the Taco, but the gamble is that the new truck will get me *most* places and the others will be little more than a bicycle ride or hike away from. I'm not sure there was a "right" choice, but I've made peace with the choice I've made.
So this isn't goodbye by any means, I'll still hang around this forum, but I may not be as active, especially as we prepare to depart. I'll be sure to update this thread with a link so those interested can follow along with our adventures!
While the additional emissions equipment was a definite downside of going with the diesel, for my needs the pros outweighed the cons. That was one of the reasons I chose the Cummins over the other two, it represented a great powertrain in a good truck, while the Ford was a good trucks with a good powertrains (didn't like the Chevy). We'll see if that move pays off, I sprung for the 6 year/100,000 mile bumper to bumper warranty, so I should be covered if anything other than wear parts die within that time frame.
