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<blockquote data-quote="Hawgman" data-source="post: 1461798" data-attributes="member: 7676">I lived in Alaska for most of the 90&#039;s.&nbsp; I was incredibly unimpressed with dodge.&nbsp; The diesel engines were great but the drive live sucked.&nbsp; People had problems with the u-joints and front differential.&nbsp; Occasionally heard of front bearing in the locking hubs being a problem.&nbsp; And this was on pretty new trucks too.&nbsp; A lady I worked with bought a new dodge diesel 3/4 ton 4x4 and the front u-joint went in less than a year.A guy I worked with had a 3 year 1 ton chevy dually 4x4 and his rear axle had to be replaced.&nbsp; All he did with it was hall a fairly small boat in the summer.&nbsp; Chevy&#039;s in general had serious paint flaking problems in that environment.&nbsp; Everywhere you looked there were peeling chevy&#039;s.My whole experience up there left me a hard core ford truck fan.&nbsp; That kind of environment separates the wheat from the chaff real quick.I have zero experience of any kind with full sized foreign trucks so I can&#039;t comment on them.&nbsp; The only thing that concerns me with old foreign trucks is finding and paying for parts.&nbsp; No matter how good it is, it&#039;s old and WILL break eventually.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hawgman, post: 1461798, member: 7676"] I lived in Alaska for most of the 90's. I was incredibly unimpressed with dodge. The diesel engines were great but the drive live sucked. People had problems with the u-joints and front differential. Occasionally heard of front bearing in the locking hubs being a problem. And this was on pretty new trucks too. A lady I worked with bought a new dodge diesel 3/4 ton 4x4 and the front u-joint went in less than a year. A guy I worked with had a 3 year 1 ton chevy dually 4x4 and his rear axle had to be replaced. All he did with it was hall a fairly small boat in the summer. Chevy's in general had serious paint flaking problems in that environment. Everywhere you looked there were peeling chevy's. My whole experience up there left me a hard core ford truck fan. That kind of environment separates the wheat from the chaff real quick. I have zero experience of any kind with full sized foreign trucks so I can't comment on them. The only thing that concerns me with old foreign trucks is finding and paying for parts. No matter how good it is, it's old and WILL break eventually. [/QUOTE]

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