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I saw a 36' Dodge body dropped onto a newer diesel frame and running gear.
Maybe a 49' powerwagon might supply the body toughness required.
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Hey If were not carefull all the techies at GM Ford or Chrysler are going to take our ideas and come out with A retro viper P/u and were all gonna have to buy new trucks....and I havent paid this one off yet, 
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Have you not seen the new GM truck? Not what I would call off road but.
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I think I caught a quick glimpse of it. I still haven't seen one of the new chevys with all the plastic. When chrysler came out with the cummmins pairing I was really hopefull that the others would follow that lead and someone would offer a Detroit Disel while someone else would offer a Cat. So much for my thoughts.
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Detroit is part of GM and the engine prior to the Duramax was a Detroit offering, although I don't think it was a real Detroit. I never had the reputation or fuel economy of the IH in the Ford or the Cummins in the Dodge and the plant was sold to AM General to power the Hummers. GM is now making the H2 and marketing the Hummers so I do not know what stake they now have in AM General.
The Duramax was constructed with Izuzu and JD help. GM has a stake in Izuzu and has for years. They constructed a new plant to get it and were at least 1 year late getting on line. In 2000 the year I bought my Dodge there was no GM offering.
I find it amusing to see all the GM web sites designed to lift the profile of their Duramax. The advertising crew must have worked overtime. I worked through the myriad of advertising web pages to find the mechanical problems posting on one site. Not what the average user would do and there were not a lot of posts.
I guess I am turned off by the slick Willy approach to sales.
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I am really enamored with mine thus far. This is this first vehicle I have ever had where people will walk over to talk to me about it. I have literally spoken to several dozen Duramax owners and have heard nothing but good. I would concede that with only 40k on the OD it will take another 60k to firm up my belief. I really think all of the diesel offerings currently are pretty darn nice. As for the manufactures and there little ploys, well, you know you've got to justify those six figure salaries for people who sit on there duffs all day and do little other than drive the cost of new vehicles up. As for lemons, lets talk about that new Caddy STS with the 400 hp Navistar I bought a few years back. 24,000 miles, burned a quart and a half of oil every 2k, quit running at every stop sign and going 25 mph the trany would start shifing like it was possesed. Or the little Dodge P/up I bought when I was younger, 3k and every time it rained it quit running, leaked oil under the manifold at a break kneck pace. Chrysler finally sent one of there "area managers" down to look at it. I waited all day tp hear there was nothing wrong with it.I just about dragged that guy to the parking lot...oops he didn't even know which one it was because he had never even looked at it. I was in college then and I took a beating tradeing that piece of %^$# in on a S-10. All I can say is I'm haapy to finally have a diesel and it is soooo much quiter than the others and accelerates like a gas engine...Life is good
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I finally used my 2002 3/4 Ton Ram for plowing some heavy snow last week. Up until that time what we were getting was light for the most part and only amounted to perhaps 8-10 inches a day. I would hop on the Kubota after work to relieve the stress and plow the 200' driveway to the house, the parking area and then 400' to the barn and associated parking area. I worked late Thursday and Friday during some heavy snow that was just too much for the machine/time continuum available to me. That truck with the 8' BLIZZARD plow worked great! I was a bit concerned due to the fact that the plow was an afterthought so I had not purchased an anti-spin rear axle, but bought off the lot due to the high rebates and deal offered me at the time. Doesn't seem to make much difference without that feature, my previous two plow units both had it and I really could not notice a difference in the plowing performance.
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From all I can tell the Duramax is holding up fairly well so far. It is good to here they may have it right now.
I have not had my Dodge in for any repairs to date with 50K on it. Time will tell.
I wish I could say the same for the 97 F150 I had. Most were waranty recall items, but I did have to repair one rear seal in the rear end. A 2$ part with a $300 dollar repair. As it was just out of waranty I fixed it myself but it took nearly a day.
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Hey if they come out with one of those Toyotas with a diesel then We'll have something to really debate. I know there assembled in the US. But it's still just not the same.
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I'm on my 5th HD 2500 Duramax/Allison and I love them.
I usually keep 10K miles then sell or trade and get new one
(got to keep economy going).
The 01-02 ones looked better but I really wanted a NH blue
truck to match my tractor but had to take a black one instead since the extra $1500 ran out 12/31.
I regularly pull #15K trailer and this set-up and it works great.
I thought GM would up the power on these trucks to stay
ahead of the rest.
May be they will just put the 8.2L duramax/6 sp allison
in soon.
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