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Diesels sound cooler, diesel smells better than gas, and if you use diesel to start a fire, it won't blow up in your face. I think this debate is settled. Lol
If it's not about price or fuel economy, get what you want. If you get the diesel, you can get the free forscan scanner and enable the DPF % screen. Every once in a while when it goes into regen go ahead and take a detour and run it down to 20% as always taking short trips can hurt the dpf. It only takes 20 miles or so to get it down that far, the trick is getting the regen to start when you want it to instead of when you almost get to where you're going.
If you get the diesel, follow this advice or install TorquePro on you phone/tablet to monitor when the DPF cleaning is done. I went from a 2011 CCSB F250 w/6.2 to a 2014 CCLB F350 w/6.7. I changed for towing current car hauler (6.2 would have worked) and a coming 5th wheel. The truck with the 6.2 was a great truck, and I didn't have a single problem with it. When I first got the 6.7 truck I was still living in Kodiak, and my daily commute was only 8 miles one-way. Initially I had regens kick off on the way to work, and I wasn't able to let them finish. That resulted in "making oil", which meant I was getting some excess diesel fuel down into my oil because I wasn't completing the regens. That's when I started using TorquePro so I could see the status of my regen (trucks only tell you it has started, and they don't tell you when it's finished). After that, I would extend my drive when a regen started until it finished. No more making oil.
So, I tell you all this as an example of how you can get what you want and make it work. Your commute is longer than mine was, and that should make it even easier for you.
07-25-2017, 05:13 PM
