PLEASE !!!! pick my new truck for our build

[Kingsize24]

You are a Cummins guy? What makes you push the 6.7 ford? Good history with them for longevity ? I like the option

It's just the current best vehicle out, and now the track record of the engine is a known. When I bought my cummins truck, IMO it was the best truck out at that time. Still had a manual, the cummins was a known quantity, unlike the relatively newer 6.7. Time has passed and the Ford is the current best truck, so if I was buying now, that's what I would purchase. I don't hold fast to a brand in particular. I've owned them all, and I've owned MANY of each brand that were great trucks in their time.

 

[Tex68w]

It's just the current best vehicle out, and now the track record of the engine is a known. When I bought my cummins truck, IMO it was the best truck out at that time. Still had a manual, the cummins was a known quantity, unlike the relatively newer 6.7. Time has passed and the Ford is the current best truck, so if I was buying now, that's what I would purchase. I don't hold fast to a brand in particular. I've owned them all, and I've owned MANY of each brand that were great trucks in their time.

I couldn't have said it better myself.

 

[Skinhyfish]

Yes agree. The Ford locking rear axle is nice and more options for gearing with bigger tires. Ram in 40’s looks sweet. No good regear options yet

 

[Montereyman]

Have had great conversations with Mario at AT. Goal is to skip the sprinter van and go to an Aterra for a part/fulltime rig. We were debating weight, warm, and price. Aterra fits our needs. We have a 2020 tundra with Dobinson lift and 5.29’s on 35’s. Had a hallmark on it. Want a better warmer living space. Debating about using platform but feel the tundra won’t like it long term. Will tow part time, not heavy. Raft trailer or duck boat.

Our choices are

1 gas or diesel. (Daily driving feels, power, and cost)
2 single cab long bed for garage, or ext cab short bed ( goal is a short wheel base)


Dodge 6.7 diesel or the hemi 6.4 gas. Long bed single cab only option

Ford ext or single cab. 7.3 gas or 6.7 diesel

We are choosing the OEV aluma bed.


What would you choose and why?

Thank you all for you input and opinions.

Goal

Diesel provides about 25% more driving range but is offset in part by fewer stations pumping diesel in small towns. My last pickup was a GM 2500 diesel and it was the least reliable vehicle I have owned with problems with the NOx sensors and DEF sensor and poorly done emissions programming. I replaced it with a gas powered Ford with its factory 36-gallon gas tank. Same range as with the diesel but none of the problems.

Best platform is the CC which has greater payload than the pickup versions. I would start with a F-450 Chassis Cab as my base and add a slide-in camper at the rear and in the space between the camper and the cab I would build a metal storage cabinet.

 

[Montereyman]

Important to realize that certain model years and engines were far less reliable and best to avoid. That was certainly the case with the various versions of the GM Duramax diesels that changed a great deal every 1-2 years and with the Ford diesel engines as well. There is the false belief that because the Cummins diesel engines in their semi's are reliable that the same holds true for the engine that goes inside a Ram pickup and this is not the case.