Son's '02 DMax has about 275K. Most of the miles hauling 5vers between Indiana and New Orleans. Other than injector recall service at 13K and piece of junk GM brakes gone at 15K, truck has been flawless. He's religious about oil/filter changes, and fanatical about air cleaner filters! Now pulling his 20' enclosed work trailer all the time. The thing just keeps ticking them off...
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I have a 1996 Dodge 12-valve Cummins 5.9. I do my own maintenance, and have modified my truck from 150-HP, rear wheels on the dyno, to over 350-HP. Only thing that ever broke was a water pump and leaking headgasket (both when stock), at about 90,000 miles. It now has over 225,000 miles.
We have 225,000 on our 1988 F-250, the old loud IHC motor that needs the additive to keep the water chambers from rusting through. Replaced the injector pump (once) and glow plugs (a few times). We also have medium-heavy trucks that have run 400,000 plus. Also, I have 175,000 (estimated, since the odometer quit working last September) on my 1990 T-Bird SuperCoupe (I know, that was not the question.) Also have a 2000 F-350 PSD with 75,000 so far.
ya my 88 has 300k + on the original engine with little maintence
diesels are also built out of stronger materials and have higher tow ratings
they are also now finally with emissions getting down to the mpgs of a gasser for many years diesel had higher mpg
ex. ford psd 14-18 mpg
ford 460 6 mpg
cummins diesel 18-20 mpg
chevy 545 about 3 mpg
those have equal tow ratings well as close as they get the psd is a bit higher than the 460 and the 454 is higher than the cummins in a citizen version
but ive seen and heard all problems from the duramax
also fords 6.0 now gets about 6 mpg setting it around the gasser but still a higher life
2001 Dmax here with 177K. 80% of those miles it has had something in the bed or hanging off the receiver. Love the truck, I maintain it well and plan on 10+ years of ownership and want 250k miles.
The "extra" cost is just a portion of the purchase assessment. Too many people over analyze this. Maintenance costs are cheaper, the clear 2-3X MPG improvement over gas and having the power at the bottom end to move the weight around are just some of the key points.
88Beast: Not defending GM by any means but the Duramax problems were very early models and even those were isolated to specific failures.
1997 F250. Towed a 16,000 lb. fiver for five years, now with the TC. It weighs in at 4200. Also pulling a Samurai at 1900 lb. I have replaced one water pump, one starter, glow plugs. I change oil "about" every 5,000. Just hit 230,000. Can't afford to replace it with less truck.
1997 F-250 PSD/Banks StingerPlus
19.5" wheels
Front: 225/70/R19.5 F
Rear:245-70-R19.5 H
Air bags/Rancho 9000x
Add-a-leaf Springs
Toad-1987 Samurai
Lance 1030
XM Roady II for jazz!
230,000 miles and just a rollin'!
www.dataman.cc/philip for bicycle touri
311,000 on my 1994 PSD, and 322,000 on my cummins 5.9. No major problems. Unknown mileage on my 88 F-250, but would guess over 150,000 based on odometer, and it has the old 7.3 diesel.
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