Towing

[Doug I]

hmmmm wonder if I could drop a cummins in a Ford.

Anyone around here any skills in dropping unusual engines into bays it was never thought they'd be dropped into?

[DAVID GAGNARD]

Originally Posted by Doug I

hmmmm wonder if I could drop a cummins in a Ford.

Anyone around here any skills in dropping unusual engines into bays it was never thought they'd be dropped into?

I knew of a machinest that put an air cooled German made diesel engine in an older F-350 flatbed for a shop truck, ran that truck for years and years, never had any problems, too bad he croaked some years ago, he was a wizzard at doing things llike that.....

I've got a smoke wrench (cutting torch), a mig welder, shop, chain hoist, and some good air tools, get the truck and an engine and we'll give it a try, what do we have to lose??????

If Ford could ever put the Cummins engine in their trucks, they would not be able to make them fast enough........
but they can't do it. The Dodge folks were smart enough to sign an agreement with Cummins when they first started using the 5.9 engine in their trucks, it basically says as long as Dodge buys X number of Cummins engines a year, then Cummins can not sell their engines to any other manufacter for over the road use.............

I've spoken to a number of comercial haulers and they only use the Dodge deisel trucks....one guy has 3 trucks and they average 120,000 miles per year,per truck...he trades them in at 300,000 miles and told me he never touches the engines,cept for routine mantinence,but the rest of the truck is worn out and falling apart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

in 05 when I bought my Ford F-250 SD, I went back and forth bewteen the Ford and Dodge dealers for 3 weeks trying to decide on which truck to buy. I wanted the Dodge for the Cummins engine and at the time the Dodge dealer was making sweet deals, the Dodge would have cost me about 4 grand less than a similar Ford!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I don't care for the Dodge truck, but love the Ford truck (always have driven a Ford truck)and finally my wife told me to go buy the damn Ford and be thru with it,so I did.......,but I still think the Cummins engine is the best there is out there right now.........

BTW: saw a documentary some years ago about Dodge being the first to go with diesels in their trucks, Roush Industries (ala, Jack Roush,ala NASCAR fame) did all the testing and engineering to get the Cummins engine suitable for over the road use... It was originally designed and used as an industrial pump engine.......

David