new truck advice

[Rawze]

Like JimT said...


* If your buying used,.. you need to take a hard look at being able to work on it yourself so you do not get rapped every time a check engine light is on.

The cummins's only real advantage is this fact. Otherwise, close your eyes and choose whatever ill-begotten engine you want to because they are all going to be acting up by the time they get half million miles on them.

I.E>> sounds like your asking the wrong questions.

You should heavily be asking yourself...

* What would be the proper specs for a truck going to pull big hills all the time, loaded heavily?

* What truck make/model for the type of operations your going to be doig with it?

* What engine is going to give you the least operating costs vs. longevity, dependant on how much your willing to turn a wrench on it,.. or be a dumbarsse trucker who runs off to the loacal repair shop every time the emissions system burps and acts up, wasting time and money all the time?


-- I.E> The only advantage of the red engine (cummins) IS the fact that you can learn to, and gather ALL the proper tools and software to work on it yourself. All diagrams and repair procedures, parts lookup catalogues, all are FREE from the engine maker, etc... - That is its only advantage to owning it.

-- you should not even be considering "what is best engine for mountains" because that it TRUCK RELATED, not engine related.

-- Mountain driving == 13 or 18 speed tranny, and a set of rears made for it. 3.79's, 3.90's, 4.11's, or even 4.36;'s ... anything taller than about 3.55's and your pissing up wind and eating the hell out of that engine all the time and it significantly increases your long term operating costs. -- The truck MUST be geared right for the work at hand.

-- the there is learning how to drive it as such. -- Installing pyro and boost gauiges, learnign how to actually drive by those gauges because you now own it instead of driving it with the goddamn cruise control on all the time and mashing your foot in the floor, and lugging the engine below 1500 rpm's because that is the ignorant super-trucker idiot, truck/engine killing mentality any more it seem.


those are my first thoughts on it any ways. I have had my fair share of driving in those regions and do very well.