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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ryan500L" data-source="post: 3575156" data-attributes="member: 41839"><p>I have an 04 F-350 4x4 SRW crew cab Lariet, that has been the best truck I've ever owned and the only one I've kept for 11 years and put 150k on. It has the 6.0 diesel and in the first 2 years I had to put injectors in it but have never had any of the problems with head gaskets. I think a lot of that is from people putting programmers on them and hot rodding the hell out of them. I've never even had a problem with the a/c. I pull a 25ft gooseneck flatbed on occasion and it does great, has 3.73 gears and the automatic transmission. I had 2 V-10 Ford's and they both sucked, one in an Excursion and the other in a dually. Got terrible fuel mileage and had no guts when I pulled, had to keep my foot in it and the rpm's built up. I just bought a 13 Ram 3500 last year with the 6.7 Cummins and it has the automatic with 3.42 gears and I pulled a pretty heavy trailer last weekend with it and it turned 1600 rpm's at 68 mph and I got almost 14 mpg.  Thats what 800lbs of torque will do vs. a gas motor. I bought the Ram because I got a great deal and I'm glad I did, those small  V8's are just no fun to drive pulling a heavy load, my friend bought a 3500 SRW Chevy with the 6.0 gas in it and it doesn't pull worth a damn in my opinion, I rode out to Amarillo with him pulling an empty 25ft enclosed car hauler and it was constantly turning 3500-4000 rpm and getting 6 or 7 mpg. I know I'll never go back to a gas motor again, Diesel's cost more but there worth it to me. Plus a gas 3/4 or 1- ton is pretty hard to sell if you ever plan on it.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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