That's impressive. What's the motor and towing capacity on that? Do you have level ride shocks?
It has the 6 cylinder in it and rated for 6400 lbs. Stock Bilstein shocks. Towed that GS from Nashville back to Pittsburgh no problem.
Kurt
6 cylinder? WOW. I figured you had the 5.3. I know they put it in the SS. You didn't have any issue with hills or anything?
Get a Duramax and be done with it.
My '02 Cummins, with a full weight GN, on a Featherlite open trailer, with (4) 2004r's in the bed, got 17-18mpg going to Ohio and back a couple weeks ago.
It gets 23-24mpg empty...
K.
If I could I'd go with any of the 250/2500 series trucks but to prove you can tow with anything, here's my setup - 2005 ML500 4-Matic, 5.0L V8/5 speed auto rated for 5000lbs and pulls great I plan to go for an ML550 when the warranty is up (Oct '11 or 100K miles, currently has 53K), they are rated for 7200lbs and have considerably more power and a 7 speed auto so it should pull even better.
Is that still the 2 valve. I heard the mileage tanked went they went to 24 valve?
6 cylinder? WOW. I figured you had the 5.3. I know they put it in the SS. You didn't have any issue with hills or anything?
I'd go with a Ford with a 7.3 powerstroke. Tough strong workhouse of a motor. We have them in a fleet and they have close to 300k on them and some have never been touched other then L.O.F. The Cummins 5.9l have a lot of injection pump problems.
Is that still the 2 valve. I heard the mileage tanked went they went to 24 valve?
It's the last year of the 24v with a VP44 injection pump. '94-'98 are 12v, '98.5-'02 are 24v. 2003 is the first year of the common rail injection and also the first year of the new body style.
I also pick up a mpg or two from adding some Lucas additive to the fuel. And the truck isn't stock either. So I'd say the 24v does OK... Alot better than the other two diesel V8's...
When you're serious about towing and diesel performance you get a Cummins.
When you're serious about towing and diesel performance you get a Cummins.