Do you really love Diesels???
 

1) You can decipher the sound of a Powerstroke, Cummins, or Duramax from 100 yards away without seeing the truck. You can also tell the difference just by sound from the 7.3 to the 6.0 Powerstroke and a 2nd generation Cummins 12v/ 24v engine to the Comon rail motors in the 3rd Generation.

2) You have your pass side mirror permenantly tilted down, so you can see the smoke dump out the tailpipe at every intersection.

3) You have to look at the same mirror every time you start your Diesel, just to see the first puff of smoke.

4) Your friends think you are weird because every full sized truck that goes by catches your attention, and you are breaking your neck trying to see if you can see "Powerstroke" "Cummins" or "Duramax" written anywhere on it. And then when you find out it's only a 1/2 ton you are pissed you even bothered.

5) You think it's lame to hual or pull any sized trailer with anything but a Diesel.

6) You back your truck downwind, and idle so you can get a sent of the diesel smell.

7) When you pull into a drive-through, you take it as a compliment when they tell you to turn your motor off because it's too loud.

8) when you are not in your Diesel and roll up to a stop light, and roll down the windows to listen for other oncoming diesels.

9) Someone comments to you how loud your truck is and you reply, with a grin and a chuckle, "Ain't it, though!"

10) Regardless of outside temperature, you still roll down the passenger window when in tunnels, under bridges, or beside walls, just so you can listen to your truck.

11) ... when you get into a gasser that is idling and try to start it.

12) dont you guys hate it when you jump into another truck (non diesel) and you turn the key to the "run" positon and out of habit look and wait for the "wait to start" light? LOL.

13) .....when the opening line from your family/friends is.."so what'd you do to your truck THIS week?"

14) Your wife's car won't start and you go to the dealer and buy 2 batteries...

15) When you and your daughter try to pick out the internatonal dt466 powered school busses at school sporting events.





16) When you make your wife or girlfriend or buddy drive your truck down the road, just so you know what it sounds like from the outside.

17) Your wife's friend comes over with her two new babies, you hear 'twins' and you come runnin' in the house all greasy from just being under your truck wanting to see a couple of Holsets and it's only two drooly babies who happen to look alike.

18) Your idea of a kick ***** stereo system is the business end of a set of dual stacks.

19) You Are SERIOUSLY considering putting that single stack through your hood!

20) When you jump out of the truck after shut off and stick your ear to the tailpipe just to here the turbo spinning.

21) When you find urself polishing your turndown pipe whenver you get a little mud on it.

22) When your girlfriend gets hit on by some guy in a truck and she says "its not even a diesel".

23) You refuse to let people pay you after they "allow" you to work on their Diesel.

24) When your ol lady asks why you have to always back into a parking space, even when your in her car!

25) When your rather wax the truck than taker her to a movie.

26) When you have a better selection of filters on the shelf than she has seasonings on the pantry shelf!

27) When you make a wide right turn while driving a car

28) When your ol lady asks why you have to always back into a parking space, even when your in her car!"

29) When your wife or girl says "Did you see the paint job on that pick-up we just passed?", and you say "Oh, it wasn't a diesel, I didn't notice".

30) When you see a pickup driving half a mile ahead of you on the highway, and you roll down the window, sniff the air for a while, and say "Yep, Cummins".

some of them are good :U: then others dont realy matter :booo:

Is this a problem?????:humm::humm:

hahahaha :edit: great!

#13 is what my parents ask whenever I make my weekly call home!:rocking:

well you cant really hear a dmax from 100 yards away unless its got a BIG exhaust lol

Thats good. But im wondering if anyone would think this is a problem?

12 happens to me every time i am not i my truck

12 happens to me a lot... and another is when i go to push in a clutch and its not there, i got "wtf"

12 never fails everytime we have a lot of fullsize pickups at work but they are gassers I jump in turn the key and wait lol

damn that number 12. never fails in red WAIT TO START.

uhhhhh.....
 

number 24 and 28 are the same

ive had people ask me why i turn the key and wait a bit before i start it, its pretty funny i think, mines not even a stick and i still find myself lookin for the clutch every once in a whileand the tunnel and wall thing, that hilarious, my girlfriend is tired of me tellin her to listen when i roll down the window.

Cant find one that doesnt match.lol I always get yelled at when i gad it under a bridge or next to a wall, " Warn me naxt time, it hurts my ears" lol. Ill randomly call out a diesel in the distance and i hear, "You can her that a mile away, bt you cant hear me when im sittin right here".

Heres one more:
31. You get mad when your GF tells her guy friends at school that you have an 8" lift and 35"s when you really have 38"s :ouch:

This is great but doesn't account for the oil burning cars... Having owned and driven many, similar applies but I have never been able to tell a TDI from a PD until the PD takes off, faster...

The only way to tell my benz is an oil burner is to watch me drive by and you read the badge on the rear hatch.

The Dodge, well, what can I tell you that you don't already know.:humm:

Pretty much everything applies to me...especially #10. I also love how when I get beside a van on the passenger side going down the beltline and the exhaust sounds reflects off that too.

Im glad im not the only one who these rules apply to...I was beginning to think I was weird or sumthin. (probaly still am)

My wife always has to say something about me waiting for the WTS light in her tahoe. Its not that I'm looking for it its just I automatically turn the key to run then put on my seat belt.

10) Regardless of outside temperature, you still roll down the passenger window when in tunnels, under bridges, or beside walls, just so you can listen to your truck''''''''''

:ok1::rocking: and i just did that 10 min before reading blog

The othernight I was inebriated, and the wife had to drive home from the bar. She pulled out slow and driving like 10 mph and I told her that god didn't put turbos on this earth for no one to hear them..so she let her spool...and she said and I quote "man I love that sound" then she said " can we put one on my Durango?" what have I done..:argh:

1,2,3,5,9,10,11,12,13 idk all of them ha...
what about when your in a gasser you make sure your window is rolled up at all times in town bc you dont want to be seen in anything but a diesel... yelp thats me:c:

yea i got duals on my 6.2 well i just leave the windows down everywhere i go sounds so mean when its bouncin off houses. what i really hate is i work at a car wash and people get mad cause i just might see if i can get some smoke out of theirs had a guy one day with a chipped cummins and like 5 in exhaust get pissed cause i was tappin the pedal

One of the towns I live by(18 miles away) has 2 yes count them 2! stop lights on mainstreet. One has 2 story buildings on both sides. It gets loud there.

Actually its pointed down so I DON'T blow smoke at every intersection.

> You got to love em it dont matter if am at a truck and tractor pull, on the farm plowing ground in the spring or chopping silage in the fall, or just driving around or hauling cattle in my truck. MAN DIESEL FUEL AND TURBOS ARE IN MY BLOOD!!!!!!:rocking::U:

7,10,11,12,and 19 are the major ones for me specially 19 i want to do that bad:rocking::U:

Does it count if you can pick out the tractors by the way they sound?Yea I'm guilty

When you pull over to eat when on the highway and your whole family just sits there for 5 minutes or so without even ashing what are we doing.They know they must let the turbo cool down.

12 really applies to myself jump into my wifes gasser suburban turn the key wait for glow plugs and my wife sitting beside tapping me on the arm saying honey this is not a diesel:w2::argh::argh:

4) Your friends think you are weird because every full sized truck that goes by catches your attention, and you are breaking your neck trying to see if you can see "Powerstroke" "Cummins" or "Duramax" written anywhere on it. And then when you find out it's only a 1/2 ton you are pissed you even bothered.


happens every single day. haha.

Some of those apply to me, but not very many anymore. I like the power and mileage, but could do without the sound and smell, in the cab anyways. Guess I don't really love them?? I don't really care if I'm seen driving one, in fact I tint the windows in all my trucks so nobody sees me in the first place.

whoa whoa whoa!! youve got a durano too?!?!?!?! me 2!!!! why not?? this guy did!

#7 is kind of a pain in the butt sometimes

I can definitely relate to 1-3 and 7 :D

I love the fact that I can hear my truck over the TV from our second floor apartment when it's in the parking garage. :guns:

haha most of those are so true. i love drivin with the back passenger window open and the wait to start gets me everytime :argh:

Am I not the only bastard that keeps my foot on the throttle when I pull up to the drive through microphone? Heheh, I also kinda like to pull a few feet forward for maximum effect! :tttt:

I used to have a half ton with a hot rodded SB 400 with hookers and glass packs. When I went to pick up my ex wife at the bank, I went through the drive through and stomped on it; the manager came running out thinking a bomb went off! :scare2:

Guilty as charged on most of them, I can add one that I do on ocasion, Get in the wifes Grd Cherokee and almost break of the wiper switch trying to put it in drive.:humm:

YEP :humm: I too thought I was the only one.

your truck is way to loud is what i hear:scare2:

If the music's too loud, you're too damn old!

YES, I LOVE DIESELS, except Powerstroke.