I drove it home on a dealer plate tonight. It needs shocks and deals like the TV cable needs adjustment. When I got home i was down to like 6V because it's not charging. But I must say I like it
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5.9 Cummins is a good running/long lasting diesel engine. 6.2 is a turd that happens to burn diesel fuel and is semi reliable.
Yeah but when you have a Cummins you need an antidote to stop from rolling coal, and shouting "6 in a row built to tow" while you rattle away in your dodge designed 2 decades before with solid axles and chocking on exhaust fumes from the holes that enividably propopgate through the Swiss cheese floor pans in your 1st Gen Ram 😛
Word had it from my time at Deere engineering, GM and Deere had a joint venture on the Detroit diesel program in the 70's early 80's. Deere almost had a small 6 cyl turbo diesel for a square body and the GM/Deere relationship turned sour and it never happened.
Could you imagine in 1986 having the choice between a Deere powered Chev, IH powered Ford, or a Cummins Dodge? The Deere Chev would have dominated. Reliability and power of a Cummins with the body and chasis quality equal to Ford.
You forgot you need an aftermarket radio so you can hear it over those ungodly loud cement mixers that need to be turned off to go threw a drive through
Two tone color it's going to look good you'll see
Everything about this truck was a pre-existing condition. PO built it to tow his drag car. My only complaint was the Rube Goldberg vacuum pump to drive the brake booster. It didn't suck enough to stop the truck without a crystal ball to tell you to start planning ahead for the elk standing on the road around the next bend.
I helped a guy out I found on the side of the road way out in the middle of nowhere. He was towing a loaded horse trailer, got a flat that then ate the following tire with the schrapnel. I gave him my bald spare and helped change out the one he had because I had a floor jack in the tool bin.
A few years later, I found a NP205 on Craigslist for a manual Cummins. When I went to pick it up, it was on a pallet with the Getrag, bellhousing and flywheel. I have him what he asked for the NP and he just gave me the rest of it for free. After it was loaded up, he said, you don't remember me, do you? You gave me a good spare. My turn to help you out.
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A lot issues than the 6.5 Turbo.
Thread lightly with that turd, never, I repeat never tow in O/D. The 3-4 clutch packs always head south. Adjust the TV cable, push the button on open the throttle by hand, should ratchet if out of adjustment.
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