Decisions....Gas or Diesel

justinp61 said

I agree most people don't need a diesel, I don't but when I was racing a lot I did. I changed my diesels oil every 3000 miles, my gas burner every 6000 miles. 16 quarts for the diesel and 7 for the gas burner. Both my diesel trucks would wear the tires out faster than my gas burners, not to mention they are hard on front suspension components.

It all depends on what one needs or wants. If you're comfortable with the additional buy in costs, fuel cost, maintenance and tires by all means go for it. Both my brothers have diesels one uses his trucks on the farm and the other in his business so both can be written of their taxes.

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Not sure what truck you were driving but you're likely changing your oil in the diesel way too much, heck, the factory cummins show an interval of 6000 miles. We use an oil analysis service and routinely can go 8-9k miles. We run them on the farm. Same story when I was sled pulling and working for one of the diesel aftermarket companies. Heck, when we switched to Amsoil, we were getting close to 12k with Fleetguard filters. No offense, but if you're wearing out suspension components and changing oil that often, its not the truck or the diesels, its whatever you're doing to them. I've beat the hell out of them and never had that many issues.