Diesel or Gas

[farmer2]

While I'm asking thought I would seek your opinion on whether we need a diesel engine. Looking to purcase a 3/4 ton DWR but not sure if we need a diesel. Any advice is appreciated.

[farmer2]

While I'm asking thought I would seek your opinion on whether we need a diesel engine. Looking to purcase a 3/4 ton DWR but not sure if we need a diesel. Any advice is appreciated.

[rockintom]

Welcome back farmer 2. Clearly you'd want a diesel and a 1 ton DRW to pull any Excel. Even that type of truck would be undersize for some of the Excels in the 36ft. length and 18,000 lbs. weight. Better to have a little too much truck than too little.

[Still Working "NOT"]

Diesel. If you ever want to go bigger you'll be better of.

Also I don't think they make a DWR in a 3/4 ton. Most that I have seen are 1 ton. That better also.

[rockintom]

Oh my Still,

You must be slipping......you had a chance to get another one over to the "dark side"!

[LindaH]

If you'll stop by the "Big 3" dealerships and pick up their towing guides so that you can see the towing capacities of the various configurations, you'll quickly see that a diesel has far more towing capacity than an equivalently-equipped gas engine.

You say you want a 3/4-ton DWR truck. I've never seen a dual rear wheel truck in a 3/4-ton...there is no such creature (at least as it comes off the assembly line). You'll need to move up to a 1-ton to get dual rear wheels.

And Rockintom is correct about getting a 1-ton DWR truck...you'll probably be very unhappy with a 3/4-ton truck since the pin weight of almost every Excel will put you over a 3/4-ton's GVWR and rear GAWR.