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Originally Posted by JBandit
I'd still buy mine. my boss and I did the math, and between his '78 f250, vs my '02 2500, I still save about $10 on a 200 mile trip considering the current fuel prices. Now...payment wise, I have considered a cummins, though a cummins swap in an OBS suburban or 2500/3500 has crossed my mind a bit...
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Ha, crossed your mind... its about all i think about these days. Have looked into doing a SAS and cummins swap. I am young right now, and with the way things going, these cummins and older chevy bodies aren't going to around for much longer so i want to build some thing that i have every intention of keeping for my first kid to drive to school
Here is some thing for you to consider, and DMAX guys, take no offence. Cummins has earned there "million mile motor" rep for a reason. They have been running there engines in pickups for over a decade now. These engines were an amazing feet the first few that rolled off the line, by the time the late 90's rolled around and they switched to the 24v in 99... they had a pretty good idea of what they were doing
As for a duramax, amazing engines, don't dout that in the least. I drive 3 or 4 every summer for hauling bales and such around. When loaded up with 6 green feed bales (about 2-2.5k a piece) that durmax still puts yoru ass in the seat when you punch it. How ever, that same trailer behind my grandpa 99 dodge 24v.... when we take a hill the RPM's barley move... that duramax... **** i have never seen RPMS shot so high and a tranny drop so fast in my life... Duramax just hasn't been around long enough for me to get behind them fully... and 8k on injector scared me away as well.
Each truck comes with there pros and cons. Some thing i greatly dislike about the late 90's dodge is the incab noise. Yes i like the sound of a diesel engine and such... but after 4 hours of highway driving... i would like to be able to turn my radio down from max and just be able to hear my self think (this is fixxed with some simple sound deadening)
OBS chevy's.. i drive and 04 half ton... by far one of the msot comfortable interior ever put into to a truck, specially the buckets in the front.
From what my research has given me, the biggest difference between the 12V and 24V is alittle more computer stuff. every thing on the 12V was manual, and very simple. Mods the engine were simple. One thing i found as well, it is quite common for the 24V guys to swap there fuel pump for a 12V pump. in simple terms... the 12V in a sence was some thing you and some buddies could pull on a fridya afternoon after work, and have back in fixxed/modded by sunday after noon with time to spare with the kids. 24V take alittle more work because of the computer intergration. which isn't a bad thing... modding became" easier in the sense you could plug some thing in and change it... but if some thing went wrong.
thats just my buck and half worth of ramble