Dodge Diesel?

[WilliamBos]

I took delivery of my first Dodge CTD in April 1990.
I discovered the Dodge Cummins Turbo Diesel while reading a magazine my wife bought me while recovering in the hospital after having a liver transplant in November 1989.
I didn't need a new vehicle but I loved that Cummins and it gave me something to look forward to.
So it was time to think long & hard about this.
My first concern was driving it long enough to fully warm up. I felt my drive of 25 miles to work was sufficient for warm-up. I also felt it would be better on fuel although I did not know at the time how much better it would be.
The final vote for it was my wife. She said if that痴 what you want - get it - the time may never be better than now! So when I was discharged from the hospital I started checking them out at the dealerships.
I signed the papers to purchase and the truck was built. It was a W250 4x4 5 speed with 4:10痴 & limited slip light/blue dark/blue & AC. I took delivery 4 days before my birthday in April 1990.
Looking back, it was the best thing I ever did. As it turned out, I did need that Cummins Diesel. It allowed me to do things I never would have attempted. It worked very hard for me & never let me down.
As was previously stated, the engine will outlast the body & several transmissions. That truck rotted out and the engine with its 3rd tranny was swapped into another 1990 and is still going strong with over 300k and 8971 hours on it.
I had a second liver transplant in October 2005 so I say go for it! You never know what tomorrow may bring!!!

Tim

Glad to hear you are living life to its fullest Tim.

Do you have any pics of that first gen?? I love those trucks. Should of bought one when I had the chance in the spring of 1994. The last year ,1993 had tons of rebates, to make room for the new ram.

 

[bdog]

I currently own three 2008 gas f250s and one 2008 diesel f350. The truck I drive daily is the diesel and the three trucks I drove before it were all dodge diesels. We often drive cross country in all four trucks pulling trailers and there is no doubt the diesel has more power and gets better mileage. I pull trailers a lot but not huge trailers.

I am really considering going gas on my next truck purchase and here is why. The diesel truck costs a lot more to buy and everything is more expensive for it. Oil changes, air filters, fuel filters are all about double the cost on a diesel as they are on gas. The diesel really shines on mpg when towing but when empty their are gas trucks that get similar mpg and gas is cheaper. The other thing is repair costs. I have never seen the core engine of a diesel fail buy have seen and paid for a lot of 2-3k repair jobs on injector pumps,etc and that amount would practically put a whole new engine in a gasser.