1989. That’s the year Cummins and Dodge teamed up. Dodge had previously experimented with selling diesel pickup trucks with Mitsubishi engines, and while the Mitsubishi 6DR5 that you could find in the D150 and D250 was a good engine in its own right, it was only a four-liter and had very limited power production, which … Read more
If you’ve read out articles on the 6.0L Powerstroke and the 6.4L Powerstroke and how terribly both of those engines are, you might get the impression that I hate Navistar International. Sure, they were responsible for building two of the worst modern diesel engines ever to be used in trucks like the F250, but they … Read more
In the world of cars and trucks, most vehicles have either an automatic or manual transmission with anywhere from three gears up to ten gears. As transmissions have become more advanced, it’s becoming more and more common to see things like a ZF 8-speed being used in a performance application or even the new 10-speed … Read more
In the world of trucks and more specifically, US heavy-duty trucks, there are a few names you’re probably used to hearing, one of them being Super Duty, which is Ford’s line of heavy-duty trucks, but they weren’t always known as the Super Duty. On top of that, Ford’s line of trucks has changed massively over … Read more
If you didn’t already, diesel engines have little to no engine braking because they don’t use an intake throttle body like a gas engine does. Instead, diesel engines use fueling as a way to control power output. Depending on the application, some diesel engines have more engine braking than others due to things in the … Read more
About a week ago, we put out an article going over commercial trucks, semi-trucks, whatever you want to call them, and why they all use inline-six engines. The basics of that revolve around torque, ease of rebuilding, and lack of size limitations. The size limitations part makes sense because commercial trucks in the US are … Read more
As many of you may know, Caterpillar, better known as just CAT, is one of the powerhouse engine builders in the world of commercial trucks, mining equipment, construction equipment, forestry, oil and gas, marine, and much more. Basically, if you have something big and it needs an engine to power it, chances are that CAT … Read more
If you ask your average diesel bro what is his favorite truck is, you’re going to get a mixed bag of Cummins, Duramax, and Powerstroke answers, with two of those engine platforms being a V8 and one of them as an inline-six. But, if you ask a similar question to someone in the world of … Read more
When we produced our Duramax articles a few weeks, we briefly looked at the Detroit Diesel 6.2L and 6.5L V8 engines that GM used prior to their Duramax line. And that got me thinking, how far back does Detroit Diesel go? Where did start, where did they go, and what are they doing now. While … Read more
The diesel world has a lot of different designs and ways of doing things compared to the world of gas and trucks. We’ve been making a ton of articles covering some of these different things and something I noticed while making those articles is that newer Duramax trucks have a funny-looking exhaust tip. More specifically, … Read more