Hey 7.3, some guys are calling you old at 36, any comment?.......bwaaaaa, bwaaaaaa I still feel like the day I came off the lot. With 500,000 km, (320,000miles) you are still in great shape, but you drink alot....bwaaaaha wahwah.
The new diesel trucks are too complicated and finicky compared to the older ones. I'd much rather have one of the older Dodges with the original Cummins they came out with.
I like my 2003 3500 club cab w Cummins. Wife hates it. Only 135K on it- lots of life yet. Body is in good shape too, despite the road salt up here.
She thinks spending $80K for a new or $60K for a 2 year old (and less reliable, IMO) truck (her preference is Ford) is way better than a few thou a year in repairs. I probably don't have much more than 5 years more driving myself, so....
EMD F7 locomotive Produced: February 1949 – December 1953 Engine type: Two-stroke V16 diesel Displacement: 9,072 cu in Power output: 1,500 hp Loco weight: 247,300 lb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_F7
Santa Fe promo film for the Super Chief passenger train set to the music of Count Basie & His Orchestra's song Super Chief. Featuring the lovely actress Virginia Leith.
"Whose bright idea was it to put every idiot in the world in touch with every other idiot? It's working!" -- P. J. O'Rourke
EMD F7 locomotive Produced: February 1949 – December 1953 Engine type: Two-stroke V16 diesel Displacement: 9,072 cu in Power output: 1,500 hp Loco weight: 247,300 lb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_F7
Santa Fe promo film for the Super Chief passenger train set to the music of Count Basie & His Orchestra's song Super Chief. Featuring the lovely actress Virginia Leith.
Wooo!
567 cubic inches of Detroit 2 Stroke power in each of the 16 jugs!
“Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.”
No pictures, my favorite: 2001 ford F-350 club can , 6 speed manual tranny, 8’ box, single rear axle, 7.3 power stroke with 110,000. Barely broken in. It will out live me.
No pics as well, but dad literally drowned an old Mack years ago. Thing was running when it went into the river. After we rebuilt it, if you put the thing in just the right bind, it would choke down and start running backwards.
Put it in reverse and it would go forward, dump the clutch on 2nd gear and she would go backwards.
You would have to kill the engine and restart it and all was good.
My father designed mobile artillery, but did not get to choose the diesel engine. That contract was awarded based on what state the engine was made in. If you could have chosen, he would take Cummins.
My cousins replace their tug boat engines with giant Caterpillar engines.
Based on the sound they made in dump trucks dumping gravel in my driveway, I liked Detroit Diesel.
When I was a janitor at Kenworth, all diesel engines made a mess at full throttle on the dynamometer.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
WHAT??? No pix of the venerable 5.7L GM diesel in pickups and a couple sedans???
GM nearly killed the entire diesel market with that pos...
Had a 80's something oldsmobile with one of those in it. You'd about burn the glow plugs up getting it started if it was cold at all, smoked like a chimney until it warmed up some, and you needed a 3/4 mile run to pass someone going 50 on a 2 lane highway, but it got me to work for a couple years! Lol.
You left out that they sounded like a handful of gravel in a steel can.