My D-Max vs 2008 Power Stroke
#1
07-26-2010, 01:24 AM
My D-Max vs 2008 Power Stroke
So...I have a 2007 GMC Sierra with the "Classic" body style and an LBZ Duramax/Allison tranny. Great truck.
The problem is that my wife and are looking at relocating to a place with heavy snow, where a 4x4 would be more useful than a 2WD truck. The local dealership has two 2008 Ford 4x4's with 6.4L Power Strokes; one an F250 crew cab (or whatever Ford calls their four-door models) and one an F350 dually. Both have automatic trannies and look very clean and well cared for.
How do those trucks compare to a Duramax/Allison combo? I already looked up the HP and torque numbers, and they're comparable. What about reliability?
The problem is that my wife and are looking at relocating to a place with heavy snow, where a 4x4 would be more useful than a 2WD truck. The local dealership has two 2008 Ford 4x4's with 6.4L Power Strokes; one an F250 crew cab (or whatever Ford calls their four-door models) and one an F350 dually. Both have automatic trannies and look very clean and well cared for.
How do those trucks compare to a Duramax/Allison combo? I already looked up the HP and torque numbers, and they're comparable. What about reliability?
Last edited by SixGun; 07-26-2010 at 01:27 AM.
#2
07-26-2010, 02:44 AM
So...I have a 2007 GMC Sierra with the "Classic" body style and an LBZ Duramax/Allison tranny. Great truck.
The problem is that my wife and are looking at relocating to a place with heavy snow, where a 4x4 would be more useful than a 2WD truck. The local dealership has two 2008 Ford 4x4's with 6.4L Power Strokes; one an F250 crew cab (or whatever Ford calls their four-door models) and one an F350 dually. Both have automatic trannies and look very clean and well cared for.
How do those trucks compare to a Duramax/Allison combo? I already looked up the HP and torque numbers, and they're comparable. What about reliability?
The problem is that my wife and are looking at relocating to a place with heavy snow, where a 4x4 would be more useful than a 2WD truck. The local dealership has two 2008 Ford 4x4's with 6.4L Power Strokes; one an F250 crew cab (or whatever Ford calls their four-door models) and one an F350 dually. Both have automatic trannies and look very clean and well cared for.
How do those trucks compare to a Duramax/Allison combo? I already looked up the HP and torque numbers, and they're comparable. What about reliability?
#4
07-26-2010, 12:23 PM
#6
07-27-2010, 01:42 AM
This is also a bump for more info on the 6.4L PSD's reliability.
#7
07-27-2010, 12:58 PM
Depends on how much snow, I rarely put my truck in 4wd around town with lots of snow. The 6.4 is a monster, seems to take a pretty good beating and make good power with very little mods. Honestly, after tuning and driving one for a couple days it made me want to trade my Dmax in on one but I just couldn't bring myself to drive a ford.
#8
07-27-2010, 03:57 PM
2wd will be fine for the most part, but 4wd is a lot nicer, in deep snow you're not going anywhere, on ice 2wd can be fine, but if there's more than a foot of snow don't plan on getting anywhere to fast or anywhere in general
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remember you have around a 1000lb engine up front on these things and that doesn't help traction on the ice or snow
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remember you have around a 1000lb engine up front on these things and that doesn't help traction on the ice or snow
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07-27-2010, 04:23 PM
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07-27-2010, 05:23 PM
