[Vwdiesel] Interesting diesel concept car
LBaird119 at aol.com
LBaird119 at aol.com
Fri Feb 9 01:38:39 EST 2007
In a message dated 2/8/2007 2:33:18 AM Pacific Standard Time,
mikitka at earthlink.net writes:
> I have shunned GM products due to the
> crap they sold in the USA during the 1980s
I dunno. Dad had a'79 5.7 diesel and got 70K trouble
free miles out of it before the other two brothers decided
to sell it in the local paper without telling him. He was
planning to keep it and just put a new 5.7 in it for lots of
trouble free miles. Stories are pretty consistent that the
later ones WERE pretty dependable, 200K to 300K miles
dependable. His only problem was with the pump itself.
The 6.2 is still the best engine for economy in a full size
pickup it seems. There were weak ones, more than there
should have been but overall, I'd be heavily inclined to use
one of them over a 6.5, mostly for mpg reasons.
Loren
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