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[Matt0987]

People suggest the cost of diesel fuel as a reason to buy a gas vehicle. But when you compare miledge.....

10 to 20% better miledge and diesel is still less than regular gas. The diesel engine may be initially more money than a V10 gas. I do not know. But when you are buying used that premium cost often disappears.

As you can tell I am sold on diesel over gas.

I first had a 1978 Oldsmobile 98. 22 mpg around town and 28 on the road. Seats like your living room. All the luxuries available for it's time. It ran like a champ.

My next one was an 83 F-350. A few issues. But not nearly as many as my two Suburbans. The 83 was sold in 04. The 20 year old truck fell apart before the engine did.

I traded a Suburban in on my Excursion and I have been very pleased. See my sig for what I have done to it.

I had some issues w/ my F-350 6.0L at first -sputtering and such- but the last couple of years have been good. It has 65k on it now and the Ex 85K.

It took about 50K to get the bugs worked out on my 83. The it ran and ran for 20 years.

I hope to have both the F-350 and Ex for another 15 or 20 years.

I have a tough time believing that every 6.0L will definantly fall apart. There is a percentage. But how that percentage compares with other similar vehicles. I do not know. Both of my Suburbans were a disappointment. Head gaskets, brakes (like complete failure that ended in an accident), metal fatigue, blown rear ends.

I believe that on the whole the 6.0L are not really better than or worse than others.

This forum has a basic format of looking for answers to questions that include repairs. So we hear about the problems here. But there has to be hundreds of thousands of 6.0L that are running day after day after day. Just like mine.