Transmission choice?

I've owned several dodges and I operated a shop and service trucks for over 25 years prior to this. I can attest from real life experience the dodge chassis is not near as good as a ford or chevy. The cummins motor is slightly better than the 7.3 in power maybe but try putting a seat on an engine and drive it? You have to look at the total package the superduty series would have been lots better if they'd offered and engine choice but they didn't.
When your chassis get 550,000 on it let me know as of now I only know fo one person with more and thats the RV hauling guy here.
I've seen several working superduty's with over 750,000 on them. You got a ford sterling don't you? That was the breeding of a ford and dodge wasn't it?

 

Ford and frieghtliner I think.
the Dodge has over 300k on it original tranny and engine , actually everything but the injectors.


You used a dodge for hotshot? I don't remember?

 

No the dodge's were 2500 & 1500, I have a durango I'm trying to sell now(god I wish someone would buy it) The main problem when I worked on them was the fuel pumps electronic heads. I completely built and old 5.9 thats a heavy motor guy ran it over ten years without any problems and sold it. the chasiss kept eating suspension parts. If you're running a manual trans stay away from joe's trans. in saxonburg when rebuild time comes.

 

I'd never own a manual transmission in a truck again, autos out last them by far.

 

It was called the Sterling Bullet and was a Dodge Ram with Sterling logos and sold at Sterling dealers.

 

Not this one...

 

Gotcha. Thanks for clarifying.

 

I agree to get dodge info you need to get t from the horse's mouth. Ive always been a cummins fan (both b series and the nhc and ntc 855's especially the non turbos but thats for a different page) and i beleave that in this biz the cummins is the way to go just from the reliability stand point. That being said the cummins aside, ive never been a fan of a dodge truck. There alot of things that i think were poorly engineered and they seem to eat front end parts. Like i said i cant speak for a dodge used in hotshot service they may do and hold up fine, and i agree you should deff talk to the guys on the cummins fourm. Just here in wv i see dodges getting worked on more than the rest

 

There is a guy in the TDR forums that hotshots in the TX oilfields with a Dodge, I think he might be in the 300-400K miles range now, I haven't heard him complain about the front end, BUT maybe I missed it. He has the auto and it has been trouble free and I think very minor repairs to the engine, the DPF might of fallen off too I have a 2001 2500 with 254K, did rebuild the front end last year, mostly because I had to tear it down to replace the four wheel drive CV joints on the front axle, had not touched any ball joints, etc. to that point. They continue to improve the trucks, I don't know that I would be afraid of one, BUT I am real partial to the B Cummins over the other offerings in trucks up through class 5.

TS