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Any other diesel nuts on here? I'm in the Dodge camp, after being
born and raised GM :o :eek: but like all of 'em, what ya'll got?
Stories, "bombing" talk, etc. Don't turn me in to the FBI, at least not
for that comment, that is the common slang for hopping up diesels. :p
i dont like diesel it smells bad and that nois it makes . i like a quiet running vehickle no loud pipes . never have . guess i am a old fogey . but never have . some of the new gass burners have a awful oder to the exzoust .. that is my nickle `s worth.
Hi Papasage, I hear you, it is not everyone's taste. An aquired taste
maybe? My Dad ruined me :) , been driving diesel this or that long as I've
been driving. I like the smell of raw diesel, and exhaust if its rich and in
small whiffs - my High Output Cummins will burn your eyes though, hooking
up the boat trailer if the wind is outta the wrong way. As for the sound,
what can I say - if I could afford to, I'd sleep in it with the motor running -
one guys noise is another guys lullabye. Don't hurt my feelings either for
a dually to hit 20 mpg, even if I do have to float a note to fill up now. :(
And pull.... :D It don't know the meaning of "can't"
I know I really like my `03 Dodge ram, it has the Cummins high output. There is nothing that I wanted to pull it couldn’t, and get 20 to 21 mpg average. Mines still completely stock and I have no desire to change it. Papasage have you really listen to the newer Cummins (I think `03 and newer), when sitting idling there’s no more noise than most gas burners and all you hear when driving is a little turbo whistle. Mine is a 3500 quad cab, short bed, with single rear wheels.
yep i heard them ther a few come by my shop that pulls cargo traylors .
i amnot saying i wouldnt have one if i needed a work horse . they are quiet on the road but that idling of most of them is loud . and it irritates me . i would git use to it if i was pulling something like a camper traylor or something where i needed that power . then that is the way to go
on the '03 and newer, unless you are just in the habit of looking at
badges on vehicles, most folks won't peg it as a diesel at first, they are
so quiet. Dad gum though, I took off my muffler and put a big heavy
equipment air filter on it within the first year - mines an '02 and
clatters pretty loud, the loudest of the early ones, I am told. Something
to do with injection timing and cylinder pressure. I love the deep bellow
out the pipe when its in a hard pull, nothing at all like glass packs on a
gasser. The turbo whistle can get a bit much towing heavy in hills, but
it lets my EGT's run cooler, the main purpose of both my mods. Cooler =
longer life. If you roll the windows up and turn on the radio though, you
can't really hear it in the cab. Of course I run with windows down and radio
OFF most of the time :D I do get a little embarassed in a campground at
5:30 AM if I have to crank up though, thats why I usually use the wifes
ride to back the boat in when we're camping. This is just my personal
feelings, but far as I'm concerned, I wouldn't care if they didn't make a pick-up less than a 3/4 ton. They (suspension, brakes, driveline) are built
the way a 1/2 ton should be, the 3500's about like what a good 2500 should
be. ;) Change the fluids and filters like you should, and just DRIVE...
I average 10 years+ on a truck, and have not yet (knock on wood) had to
do much of anything along the lines of ball joints, brakes, trans. rebuilds,
clutches, etc. "E" range tires usually last me 75,000 plus too. The Dodge
is probably not going to be quite as easy on stuff as my previous trucks,
after all, she has a bit of a weight problem - 7,160 lbs. with me and my
daughter on board and 1/4 tank of fuel...
I drive a Ford 350 4 x 4 diesel and love it, get great mileage out of it and I pull a 28 ft fifth wheel with a 19 foot Ranger behind it and it doesn't miss a beat. Really quiet outside , it has a quad cab so it has alot of room, and it is quiet in the cab. Has all leather interior and heat in the seats for those cold mornings. I know what you mean about starting it up in the am in the campgrounds, but have you ever listened to how many there are taking off in the morning......wouldn't have anything else even with the price of fuel right now.
bvgonefishing, Hi, did you build or buy or what the hitching arrangement
on back of your fiver? I'm interested in getting set up similar when the
money gets right, hopefully in this life :) Curious about towing behind a
camper. I've read alot about it on the turbo diesel register web site,
but always welcome first hand knowledge - I hear you can't back up with
a double, not a problem, one of my friends on here will probably be intersted
in this too, think he may end up towing a double hook up too. Have you
had any trouble with tires on the boat trailer heating up or otherwise?
Is it a tandem axle trailer? Figure a big Ranger, it could be.
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Originally Posted by J White
No the trailer isn't a tandem, only thing that we wanted and didn't get, but it does have the surge brakes which helps out alot when double pulling. The fifth wheel of course is a pin set up and the hitch on the back of the trailer is a standard reese hitch, had to beef up the back of the trailer alittle with some angle iron, but don't have any problems with it, I'm an iron worker so have access to the iron that was needed and also a welder. No you can't back up with two together, I have backed up when needed, at a gas station etc. but only a foot or two, you have no control over where the boat is going, but we just drop the boat and set up the camper and then go get the boat, most campgrounds have a big parking area where you can drop. We follow the Crappie USA circuit and also have started fishing the Crappie Masters tournies, so we have pulled alot of miles this way. Get alot of looks going down the road. Saw a tag along piggy backing a boat this morning at Mark Twain, that sure looks like it could be squirreley to me. If you want more info let me know, will get alittle more technical if I can.
I love my 03 Dodge, 51,000 miles so far and going strong. It will pull anything you want and then some more. I dont get the mileage that stray said, but most of mine is in town, or highway pulling the boat. And part of it probably is becuase of putting bigger tires on it and that cant keep my foot out of it. The best money I ever spent was on the new exhaust and air intake, sure makes it sound like a big rig running down the road. There isnt anything better than a loud cummins and a smoking one at that. Just the kid in me, maybe someday I will go up....nah. And like some ones said about TDR it is the best site next to this one on the web.
TAE73, yeah, TDR is great, but I have to say I am always amazed how
much friendlier this place is. Not that we haven't had our moments on
here, but boy - esp. on the 3rd generation Dodge forum, those guys can
get NASTY! And I have posted ? there, and you might get 1 or 2 replies
out of 300 or more views, if you are lucky. Not so here, and I hope it
stays like that. :) I hear you on the smoking cummins, I would love to
soot the front of some of those little shoe-box cars up when they are
riding my bumper... If I didn't like my truck so much, I'd probably jam
on the brakes in front of some of them. You probably know the type,
they run up so close to your bumper, you can't even see them out of the
rearview. Like they are going to a fire or something. Just seeing a dually
brings out something in a lot of people, they just got to pass you or bust,
never mind you might already be going well over the speed limit. :rolleyes:
Sorry not taking it to Patoka for the Classic, we rented a houseboat at the marina, stayed in one last fall and they are really nice, so we reserved one on the chance that we would make it for the Classic. The rig is at the Mark Twain State Park campground right now, we went down last weekend to do some pre-fishin for the crappie masters tournie and we just left it there. Let me know if you will be at any other tournaments, would be happy to let ya see how ours is set up.
Just a word on diesels,been driving diesel cars and trucks for a long,long time and i feel it is the only way to go.My auto is a 1982 and has 275,000 miles on original engine gets 30mi. to the gallon and still running strong.My current truck is a f-250 super duty and average 17.5 mi per gal and can pull anything that is put behind it.However i really hate to see diesel costing more than regular gas.
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Originally Posted by JIGJERKER
What happened to diesel always being cheaper than gas during the summer. For the first time in my town, diesel is the same cost as gas 2.49. It has been 10 cents higher. I know the reason why its higher during the winter, but its summer and no one is using fuel oil. I am dreading what diesel will cost this winter.
Yes TDR, can be a bunch of tight lipped guys and some are rude. I always try to post with the same respect as I do on this site. I also use the same name as here. I did manage to get some smoke of out of mine. The other day, I passed a slow car pulling my boat. I downshifted to 5th. I looked in the side mirror to see if I was clear. I could see some black smoke coming out of it. Sure put a smile on my face.
My early diesel dealings were withQuote:
Originally Posted by JIGJERKER
the 5.7 in GM cars and trucks - cost lots of people lots of money and turned
them off of diesels. But my Dad was always a mechanic, and it was not
such a big deal to him, an injector pump every 30-50,000, and an occasional
head gasket before they came out with the better head bolts and gaskets,
Mom had several Caprices and a 98 Olds though that could scare the heck
out of 30 mpg - Not much if any power, but that is why my Dad said he
mainly kept them all those years when I was first driving, he knew I had the
genetic dispostion to drive like a maniac, hard to go real fast in one of those :) I wonder to this day though, if he knew that his '79 Silverado would
do 100 pulling the boat :D Is your car a VW? I've seen a lot of them go
amazing number of miles, rabbits.
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Originally Posted by TAE73
Ted, I got to wondering is your `03 a six speed or automatic? Mine is the six speed and I usually don’t have a heavy foot. Also when I say that I average 20 to 21 mpg that was driving back and forth to work, highway, empty, running about 60 to 65 mph. My boat doesn’t change the mileage much, but when hauling hay (a very heavy trailer and 13 big round bales) it will drop down to around 16 to18 mpg.
Kevin
I love diesels myself. I wish I had a diesel truck but I'll have to settle for my F-150 with a 302 for now. I was a Mercedes mechanic for several years and got to know diesels well and think the car industry should put out more of them. I think they should make less powerfull ones for the trucks as a option. There is no reason they could not make one with enough power for the occasional heavy haul, and get 30 MPG. They are to busy trying to see which one can claim to have the most powerfull one to advertise with. The big Mercedes cars had a 3.0Liter inline 5 cylinder turbo and would get 28+ MPG all day long. And those cars wheighed 4000 to 5000 pounds empty. I have a 1978 300D non turbo with over 215000 on it and still runs good.
Yep, they are in a horsepower race, and it is doing nobody any good that
I can tell. I bought a 245 horse High Output just to get the 6 speed trans,
but if they would offer something with say 175 -200 horses and a 7 speed or
a split axle, tuned for mileage, I'd be all over it. Dodge used to offer more
than one power level, but it was just because some of the transmission
options were deemed not capable of handling the extra power - not much
or any mileage gained by going with the lower power motor. If I am very
careful, strictly hiway/unloaded, I can get 20 and change, with my camper
and boat, about 14-15 unless I flog it - can drop it to 11-12 with a lead
foot, and not really get there any quicker, so I don't do that anymore.