I just thought I would share this with everyone. A friend of mine called me the other day to ask if Diesel in the oil is terminal. I'm like "That's bad man." "Have you driven it much like that?" He says "Yeah, I think I'm just gonna blow it up so they have to put a new motor in it." He didn't want them to just fix the injectors and change the oil. Well at this point I'm all about watching a cummins blow up. A 2003 no less, with 60k on the ticker. So I go to see him at his new house he's building, and DAMN!! That thing was covered in diesel. it was just pukeing diesel out the bottom. He tells me, "follow me back to my house (the one he lives in now) which is about 4 miles away on back roads. He drove that thing like he stole it from someone who stole it!!! There was smoke and fluids gushing out the bottom. I thought it was going to pop for sure, but we made it to his house. After that I just conviced him that he didn't need to drive it on the highway 120 miles to the dealer. I think a motor lock up on the highway, would be bad news. Not to mention, I don't want that crap all over my truck from following him with a gooseneck. So we put his crap stack on my gooseneck and take it to the dealer. I was feeling pretty smitten pulling up in the Dodge dealership with one of their prides and joy on my trailer looking like hammered ***. So we go in the service department and after a few minutes, this miss guided soul comes and asks me, " Are you the tow truck driver?" I said "WHAT!!! That's my truck!! Not a tow truck. I guess your attention to detail like that is what causes you trucks to have to be pulled in like this ISN'T IT!" He wasn't real happy about that statement. "Whatever, I need you to move it so I can get a customer out." Anyway, my friend drove home in a 2000 24valve dually free rental. And I was all over him like a bad nightmare, even pulling a gooseneck. Oh yeah, we drove a couple of trucks while we were there, waiting on all the paper work. I drove a single cab 4x4 dually with the new cummins in it. And yes, I drove it like someone was trying to steal it from me. Or tried to anyway. That thing was a DOG. We got back and the salesman, (who was actually really cool) says "so how does it stack up against your single cab?" I told him with all honesty and a big smile "My 96 that is 10 years older, would eat that thing for an afternoon snack!" Now granted, with some good mods and programing, I would be choking on it's smoke, but it stock form, that just ain't the case. Sorry for the long story, I just thought yall might like to hear that.

RubberDuck

 

Story's like that are always fun. The Dodge boys are fond of pointing out how much more power they can make, but at any stock or mildly modified level the PSD's always kill 'em. We're getting pretty competitive at the "big dog" power levels too, it just takes more money for us to do it.

 

I finally got the chance recenlty to square off against my cousins 01 2500 x cab long bed 4x4 Cummins. His truck was empty with 65K miles my truck which is the same except mine is a short bed and had about 500 lbs of roofing stuff in it and has 206K miles on the clicker. Both trucks are stock with larger tires. We started out at a dead stop and both floored it until 70mph to slow down for traffic. We were neck and neck the whole time with neither truck really winning. It was kind of funny to see what a truck 2 years older and over 3 times more miles could do against the Cummins Ram!!! I bet anything if we were pulling equal weight I'd have the advantage if my truck was emptied out.