[willy]

My best friend has the 7.3 in the pre super duty 3/4 ton 250 4x4 and has 230,000 plus on it. Never done nothing but replace the ball joints in it this year and change tires and oil.
I've got to tell you I think they all make a good truck and each has there problems at one time or another. When I was shopping before I bought my Super Duty 5.4 I drove the Chevy 2500 4x4 with the duramax engine and allison trans. If I had the money that would be the truck I have today. Most fabulous truck I have ever driven period.
And Skools the duramaxes are made by Izuzu not the previous GM diesels. Whole different animal. The Izuzu commercial diesel engine has been one of the most durable engines ever produced and they mated it to a Allison Trans built special for it.
As much as I love the Cummins, the early ones were to****!n loud. And Dodge did not build a trans capable of handling the torque so it died on a regular basis, establishing a cottage industry building a dodge trans capable of handling that monster.
Now, actually for the past couple of years with the common rail technology the Cummins has been transformed and is a great engine, Dodge is building the trans to handle it. The people I know who work on the newer Dodge diesels say the only thing they get in there now is regular maintanence, no warranty repairs at all, says a lot I think.
Ford is rumored to be coming out with a twin turbo update to the 6.0. The mechanics are hoping they dump the International 6.0 all together and do something else, there has been so many problems with the Ford version of this block that they are actually tired of working on them and hearing the grief :o