It's 2006 TDI . Amazing fuel mileage. I gets 43mpg combined city/ highway. Haven't had it long enough to check it just on highway only yet.
5,000 lbs of Oak and a nice State Trooper.
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It's 2006 TDI . Amazing fuel mileage. I gets 43mpg combined city/ highway. Haven't had it long enough to check it just on highway only yet.
Dan_IN_MN
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That truck hardly 'looks' loaded! Like others have said.....the bumper isn't dragging! You must have some HD springs under there! It would be interesting to see a pic of the springs with that load!
They would have a hay day with my truck (85 Dodge 1 ton)! I better get the tail lights fixed.......and put current tags on......(expired last month but hasn't seen the road much since then)
They would have a hay day with my truck (85 Dodge 1 ton)! I better get the tail lights fixed.......and put current tags on......(expired last month but hasn't seen the road much since then)
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No air bags. Completely stock the way it left the factory. It does have the camper package which I think means factory overload springs and a rear sway bar.
Truck Loaded
An old friend of mine used to like to frequent a tavern.One day his wife call him. His reply, "Don't Cut Any Wood as Daddy is coming home with a full load" Ken
An old friend of mine used to like to frequent a tavern.One day his wife call him. His reply, "Don't Cut Any Wood as Daddy is coming home with a full load" Ken
I have really been wanting to get a 2012 TDI and drove a 6speed one and really liked it but read a lot of issues with the HP fuel sytem failures and it scared us away. $8-9K to fix:msp_ohmy: plus the nearest dealer is 100 miles away.
I still really want to get one though:biggrin:
That truck hardly 'looks' loaded! Like others have said.....the bumper isn't dragging! You must have some HD springs under there! It would be interesting to see a pic of the springs with that load!
They would have a hay day with my truck (85 Dodge 1 ton)! I better get the tail lights fixed.......and put current tags on......(expired last month but hasn't seen the road much sense then)
It's still loaded out in the driveway, I'll take a pic of the rear springs tomorrow morning and post it for ya.
Nice story.
Is that a crewcab 8' bed Cummins? If so, I am very jealous. I have a 1st gen 8' bed. Short cab :mad2:.
Is that a crewcab 8' bed Cummins? If so, I am very jealous. I have a 1st gen 8' bed. Short cab :mad2:.
Thanks, It's a 8 foot bed, 5 speed, Cummins 12 valve.
Actually Dodge calls this a Club Cab. If it had the small rear doors it would be a Quad Cab. ,
I have the same truck. I hope it is the last truck I buy.
That's right, I forgot about the terminology.
Oh yea, here's another ":mad2:". I have an automatic. Around me, standards were fetching 3 grand more for the same truck, which I'll take and buy a new standard when my motor rips my auto apart.
No. And to be quite honest, I don't think they even exist.
watsonr
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Just because the springs don't look bagged out or the nose of that truck is not pointed to the sky.... its not heavy. Look at the tires, that rear tire is smashed down pretty good. Its compressed almost as wide as the rim is, probably a 17" tire? Learned a long time ago when using a bigger truck with overload springs that the tires carrying capacity is really the limiting factor. Heat build up kills tires as does the sidewall, we used split rims on a Ford F-250 with 2.5 ton truck leafs added for stiffening. Carried a full sheet of plywood for side racks, rounded over the top and towed a 3/4 chevy truck bed with the same racks stacked flat to the top. That was a load!
Not all cops are bastards 
I'm sure there's some of us who've pushed the limits before
That is one of 10 loads from a 5' wide Maple I brought down last year. I drove from Yamhill to Willamina in the dark coz I knew those state troopers woulda busted me in daylight(especially since they are all over the fwy then). That was the first load. The rest I used the 3500 for.
I'm sure there's some of us who've pushed the limits before
That is one of 10 loads from a 5' wide Maple I brought down last year. I drove from Yamhill to Willamina in the dark coz I knew those state troopers woulda busted me in daylight(especially since they are all over the fwy then). That was the first load. The rest I used the 3500 for.
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Not all cops are bastards
I'm sure there's some of us who've pushed the limits before
That is one of 10 loads from a 5' wide Maple I brought down last year. I drove from Yamhill to Willamina in the dark coz I knew those state troopers woulda busted me in daylight(especially since they are all over the fwy then). That was the first load. The rest I used the 3500 for.
Awesome. Any more pics of those huge rounds?
booger1286
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Those trucks make it look light. I have a 99 cummins and i regularly haul loads of wood like that and tow a 16 foot trailer full of it behind me. I did not realize a good load of oak would weigh that much though. I once hauled off a chimney in the bed of it with the brick neatly stacked and about two bricks above the bed rails. It was def heavier than a load of wood but handled it fine.
Sure could have used me one of them 2500/3500 Cummins today. I loaded the F150 till the nose was pointing at the sky - lucky I only had to drive about 1/4 mile before unloading.
Wood sure beats the crap out of the bed though. In the future I think I'll get a trailer and let the wood beat the crap out of the trailer bed instead.
A friend of mine has exactly the truck I want: 3500 Cummins, club cab, 8' bed, standard tranny, big clutch. Someday... Someday...
Wood sure beats the crap out of the bed though. In the future I think I'll get a trailer and let the wood beat the crap out of the trailer bed instead.
A friend of mine has exactly the truck I want: 3500 Cummins, club cab, 8' bed, standard tranny, big clutch. Someday... Someday...
Nice truck and big load!:biggrin:
A friend and I used to run a M715 kaiser and hump loads up over the cab height w/sides. People thought we were going slow because of the load, I don't think the M715 cared. With 5.16 gears about 45 mph was tops anyways.
A friend and I used to run a M715 kaiser and hump loads up over the cab height w/sides. People thought we were going slow because of the load, I don't think the M715 cared. With 5.16 gears about 45 mph was tops anyways.
Yup,
I ordered my '96 in '95. I didn't get the 'Camper special" so that would be the diff.
I did get the NV4500 which bumped the rear axel up to a Dana 80.
My bud has the same truck, but put bags under his. He hauls 5 horses, hay, wood, gen-set, gear with a living quarters up front.
GOOD trucks!
First one I bought was a new 01 quad cab shortbed with the 5 speed. Most I remember hauling in the bed was 2.5 tons of fertilizer. It was coon hunting with the front end with that short wheelbase. I've had all generations of dodges and drive an 11 right now. It has the most cab room by far and great power. With a ton of wood in the bed it doesn't even think of slowing down on some of the 2 mile hills here with the cruise set. For simplicity I love the first gens. The easiest mods are the 2nd gen 12 valves. Most refined daily drivers go to the common rail 3rd and 4th gen. I would love to have a nice 98 quad cab longbed 5 speed but those are hard to find and when you do fetch a premium.
