Thanks for letting us know.

If Catmando or I said that it would be ignored (since we are known as Dodge lovers! LOL!)

My friends 06 Duramax blew his "amazing" allison trans at 106,000 miles only towed with the truck 2% of the time. His front end also fell apart. Stock truck. Another member on OSO had a allison fall apart recently. So why the allison is so great I Don't know. Never had a problem with any automatic or manual trans in any of my hard worked Cummins, but the rumors say they are junk. So my expierence is opposite from the general consensus.

Basically, they all have pros and cons. Best advice is to decide based on the deals you run across while shopping. And driving all of them.

We all agree that the Cummins is the best engine though!

My '04 LLY Duramax has been solid... The only "issue" is that it's on it's second water pump in 75,000 miles.... Strange.

The GM front ends are weak.
I had the tie rods change to HD offroad units, and larger pittman and idler arms.

I run a tuner on the truck all the time. Power is very impressive, but now it eats tires.....
I don't run it on the big tune when towing though...the tranny is stock and I don't want trouble..

You need a lighter right foot, or a sports car!

up here in the great white north,weather and people are hard on any vehicle...the expression i hear the most is:
dodge has the best engine,but the worst truck....ford has the best truck,but the worst engine....just sayin'
jack
btw,i have an '10 f250 td

You might have staved off failure for awhile longer, but even with those mods your IFS is going to fail with the heavy boats you tow. You need a straight axle Dodge or Ford. I'm surprised the Allison has lasted as long as it has, looks like you got a good one.

I never put a tuner on either one of my Rams, but word is if you have one don't use it AT ALL when towing.

The people who say that about the Dodge trucks are most likely driving 02s and older. The 3rd gens are very well put together. I had two and never had an issue with either one. Go on the Cummins forums and you'll find far fewer problems with 3rd gens.

I always wondereed on situations when somebody blows something early, is it a potential that the part was just that one in 100,000 that was bad, or the driver aided in the destruction of the part. Even then blowing a tranny at 100k isnt mind blowing and not rational to beleive it might happen.

To be honest with you All of the big three are great trucks. Unfortuately I do not buy dodges and merely due the fact of their history. Cummins are great engines and in the past that was about any good that were in dodges. But now they are good trucks.

Dodge and Mack had Diesels before WWII the first Two trucks, Cummings set up Dodge for their Diesels in fact, the first couple dozen or so were done by Cummins at a factory they had in Detroit for this and dressing the engines out, for just in time delivery, they made a lot of changes in those for Dodge, as for the truck all body seams and door clearances are perfect and the doors close with one finger on my truck and this thing has been around the block,Hard! Aside from being aerodynamic.

thanks for your input,catmando...i wasn't bashing dodge,of course,as i like all trucks...i think the popularity of a certain brand has a lot to do with how the dealer treats his customers...around here,some dealers are more ''popular'' because they will go out of their way to satisfy a customer...another thing that makes a big difference is how your dealer reacts to different mods on your vehicle,mostly programmers....it's getting harder to tell your ford dealer you have reprogrammed your ecm when you're in for warranty work