That would have been the detroit designed engine, which only has two things in common with the duramax:
1. it is a diesel v8 2. it came in chevy trucks I have one of those in the fleet. Good truck, as long as you're not in a hurry. On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:31:30AM -0500, R A Bennell wrote: > No real experience with the newer ones but do know someone who has about a > half million miles on a 1983 Chevy 2500 > 2 wheel drive pickup with the diesel. He finally blew the transmission and > decided it was not worth the cost of a > tranny rebuild and parked it. > > He is an aircraft mechanic. He acquired it with about 375K miles on it from a > country vet who had purchased it new > so I guess it probably had a lot of highway miles and probably not too > heavily loaded much of the time - although > it may have pulled a stock trailer some of the time - not sure. > > He said it would routinely do about 22 mpg on the highway. > > Randy _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
