Replies to post #212913 on DD Support Board and Research Team

[shajandr]

IMO, there has nott been decent pickup since the mid-to-late 1960s.

The Cummins 5.6L naturally-aspirated or turbo is the best diesel ever put into a pickup - the prollem is that pickup is Dodge Ram which is bucket of junk.

Butt, that said, I know one fellow with a dual rear Ram with the Cummins and the Allison manual 6 speed. Mind you, this is still a shitty truck, butt digg this.

A good test of a truck is pulling a heavy trailered boat ~OUTT of the water up a Steep concrete boat ramp. Dude had a 32' cuddy cabin with dual outdrives and a dual-axle trailer that prolly weighed 8-10,000 empty. The boat launching ramp he uses at Mission Bay (general area where bar1080's kidd now lives) is steep and was fully wet at the end of the day. Folks pulling single-axle trailers with much lighter boats (19'-21' single screw or outdrive) struggled up that ramp with their engines and trannies straining mightily (I felt sorry for those drivetrains).

Dude has the 32' dual drive cuddy on his dual axle superheavy duty trailer hitched to his dual rear wheel Ram with the 5.6L Cummins and 6 speed manual. He just dumped the clutch in first gear and idled that whole rig up the boat ramp. Never needed to even blip the accelerator.- it Idled up the ramp.

That is what a straight-six diesel with 1,000 ft-lbs of torque can do. It is only 240hp - that is the best example I know of to illustrate the difference between hp and torque.

Still a shitty truck .If I could put Cummins 5.6L and 6-speed Allison tranny into say a '67 Ford, Chevy. or Dodge truck with stronger drivetrain components, THAT would be my choice for pickup. IMO, every Big Three pickup since the 1960s sucks.

The only post-'60s pickup I think is even close to worth the price would be a 4WD diesel Toyota HiLux, which is a version of the Tacoma that is nott sold in the USA, but you can get them in Australia and SE Asia - butt cannot import them to the USA or Canada for emissions reasons..Nott a full-size pickup, butt worth the asking price based on value for money - butt nott for towing boats though.

[BullNBear52]

He's talking about one engine of many and it would have been nice to provide a link to his C&P.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Power_Stroke_engine#:~:text=Introduced%20in%201994%20as%20the,(7.3%20L)%20displacement).

His post is ancient history.