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Leewhiskey
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Firing up cold and within seconds running at over 3000rpm with no load? Having drivers start them cold and head off down the street with the pedal to the floor? Idling for several hours on end? Being started and shut off very numerous times each day, sometimes with very short interval between starting and shutdown?
I love my Cummins just as much as the rest of you, and the only thing above I think it wouldn't like that much is running 3000 rpm seconds after being started cold. Maybe it would be fine through all of that. However, my point is I see the done to 70 or so engines each day. Not all engines "expirience" everything listed everyday, but it happens to all of them regularly. There are a few of them with over 250000, 90% of the rest is somewhere around 220000, and the remaining 10% is scattered around the 200000 mark. We have only have two engines have major trouble. One had an injector go bad, and the other lost a turbo. Water pumps are replaced fairly often, and we go through trannys like madmen, but the power stroke diesels in these buses are still going strong. All have good power, and use very little oil. Starting is terrible in the winter, but I'm more trusting of my 6. 9L navistar in my 84 ford to start in really cold weather than I am of my cummins. My Cummins does not start well in cold weather.
My basic point is the PSD is better than most of you appear to think it is. I cannot think of many applications that could be harder on an engine than where I work.
FYI- I work as a mechanic for Laidlaw transit services in Roseville MN. We run E-350 buses which weigh almost 11000lbs.
Sorry for the long post, but I don't like seeing the PSD being bashed as much as it is. It is a good engine to. The cummins is a better engine IMO, for many reasons. But the PSD is not that far down the hill the cummins is on top of.
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2001 Dodge Quad cab 4x4. HO Cummins 6spd. Patriot blue. Everything except leather. Muffler fell out, Luverne nerf's, stainless rocker panels, PowerEdge EZ
I love my Cummins just as much as the rest of you, and the only thing above I think it wouldn't like that much is running 3000 rpm seconds after being started cold. Maybe it would be fine through all of that. However, my point is I see the done to 70 or so engines each day. Not all engines "expirience" everything listed everyday, but it happens to all of them regularly. There are a few of them with over 250000, 90% of the rest is somewhere around 220000, and the remaining 10% is scattered around the 200000 mark. We have only have two engines have major trouble. One had an injector go bad, and the other lost a turbo. Water pumps are replaced fairly often, and we go through trannys like madmen, but the power stroke diesels in these buses are still going strong. All have good power, and use very little oil. Starting is terrible in the winter, but I'm more trusting of my 6. 9L navistar in my 84 ford to start in really cold weather than I am of my cummins. My Cummins does not start well in cold weather.
My basic point is the PSD is better than most of you appear to think it is. I cannot think of many applications that could be harder on an engine than where I work.
FYI- I work as a mechanic for Laidlaw transit services in Roseville MN. We run E-350 buses which weigh almost 11000lbs.
Sorry for the long post, but I don't like seeing the PSD being bashed as much as it is. It is a good engine to. The cummins is a better engine IMO, for many reasons. But the PSD is not that far down the hill the cummins is on top of.
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2001 Dodge Quad cab 4x4. HO Cummins 6spd. Patriot blue. Everything except leather. Muffler fell out, Luverne nerf's, stainless rocker panels, PowerEdge EZ
