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Originally Posted by 99Smokin73Stroker
I used to talk like this about the GM's.....about 2 years ago. The GM HD Duramax trucks have prooved mighty capable of doing the jobs that Ford and Dodge diesels had been doing for many years prior. I have seen IFS problems as mentioned above, but nowhere near what straight axle guys predicted. It's a stout suspension and it rides very well. There are a heck of a lot of farmers that would show you that it CAN do "real" work just as well as the others.
So Lee in Ottawa (sounds like a Jim Rome "clone" lol) Don't scratch any of the 3 diesels off your list.
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GM trucks haven't proven anything to me on the farm...my grandad put a hydra bed on his 06' 3500 dually...even unloaded the bed squats the rear end of the truck down...it squats more with 1 5X4 round bale than his 350 does with 2 5X5 round bales...we put 1 4X4X8 square bale on it and it was squated as far as it could go...he was afraid to drive it like that...the truck also hardly makes it over the mountain with a loaded 20' stock trailer when his Ford and my father's Dodge haul 28' loaded stock trailers over the mountain problem free...and he's had to replace 4 injectors in it so far...and he's always complaining about it not being able to go places his other trucks do because it doesn't have enough ground clearance...he flat out hates the truck, but he paid for it, so he's stuck with it now...
I dont know how it is where you're from but there's not many farmers here driving around in Chevy's...maybe they are just not suited for the terrain here...I dunno...but I do know that i'll never own one, that's for sure