Re: What's wrong with Chevy/GMC diesel pickups?

Posted by thejdman01 on January 12, 2006 at 06:36:13 from (64.12.116.74):

In Reply to: What's wrong with Chevy/GMC diesel pickups? posted by Richard Scott on January 11, 2006 at 16:46:35:

THERES NOTHING WRONG WITH A GM DIESEL. I have had many many many gm diesels and still do. I have a 96 wife drives a 98 both 6.5's. IF maintained they are both fine. The only thing I recommend is the heat sink (aobut 150 bucks) for the pmd and youll be fine. That is the only thing I have ever done to the newer 6.5's we have now other hten oil changes. Mine is still running origional serp belt(needs changed) and origional hoses at 300000. The horse dodo about the oil changes throw that to the wind. I run Valvoline Cummins synthetic blue oil in the wifes and I run Amsoil in mine. Run 1 year or 20,000 miles per oil changes never had any problems (not alot of stopp and go driving here but quite a bit hard pulling). I put amsoil in mine then local shop started carrying hte Valvoline so when we bought hers put that in hers and jsut never bothered changing either of them to the other. I change the filter about every 3 months (cheap insurance dont want them to plug and go through bypass). Also, on the wifes whose truck just has 140,000 miles i put a Spinner 2 oil filter on it (oil actually spins syntrifical fource forces all of the crud to the walls of the filter and oil runs back down. Amazing hte crud you scrape out of the canister. The 6.2's were not power horses but were good strong reliable motors. Dads 6.2 was very hard starting but not sure all of the glow plugs were working and dad just cussed about it and plugged it in. Started plugged in. Reason I say I odn tthink they worked (without actually testing htem) Once started glow plugs never cycled and white smoke for a long loong time. Mine when started glow plugs would cycle and white smoke was there but not sooo bad. Dads had 2 motors 4 transmissions at 500000. Got a new one due to accident. Mine had 1 transmission at 409,000 miles and i got rid of mine because of hte cancer it had. My trans was only a 3 on the tree but we got along. The reason dads truck had so many problems with trans etc is they were farm trucks. You start going up hills with anhydrous wagons clutch slipping back down and start over. You never go taround to fixing it till afer harvest or planting. Also pulling grain wagons 2 was never any picnick. The 6.2's werent power houses but always got the job done and we were never interested in going 50 w/wagons or pulling htem over mountains. Just up some fairly steep driveways and we had some land down below and a steep driveway they always got them done. I hten traded mine for a 92 that had 300000 and hten traded it in for the 96 I currently drive (only reason traded the 92 is the guy who sold the 96 i knew well and good price and great maintenance record. I also agree the 3.73 will give you better milage quite a bit better on those empty runs. Go price some heui injectors for a 94 ford then price them for a gm.

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