new chev 3500 ?'s

[dhkr123]

Back to diesels, my mechanic friends tell me the pre-electronic injector pump is the Cummins diesel to get. I've also been told to stay away from the 6.0 and 6.4 Ford diesels as they don't have the same reliability as the older 7.3.

can't beat the p1700 pump for fueling, unless you start adding 2 pumps.

I've heard the same on the fords.

also heard that some of the duramax's had bad injectors for certain years.
(2003-2005, not sure which)

diesels have come along way since the 80's & 90's. quieter, more power, reliability & such. more electronics for good or bad, more emission crap.

just don't know why the fuel is cheaper to make than gas, yet it's more money for the consumer.
i guess it's that supply & demand thing.

A barrel of crude will yield a certain fixed amount of gasoline and a certain fixed amount of diesel. This means that you need to control the consumption by adjusting the prices to balance the gasoline consumption against diesel consumption (and other related fuels, like furnace oil) in the same ratio as you obtain from the barrel of crude.

If you don't do this, then in order to satisfy demands, you end up having to process a larger amount of crude and end up with a surplus of the type of fuel in lower demand.

And keep in mind that automotive diesel is not the only user of that type of fuel. Trains, power generation, ships, certain aircraft, heating, etc., all use the same kind of fuel. Gasoline is used more predominantly in automotive applications, and is available almost exclusively from automotive gas stations, so the visible automotive use of diesel vs gasoline is very misleading.

There are also other factors that go into the price of diesel, such as government manipulations over things like trucking. Increase the taxes on diesel to reduce trucking, etc.