I've told a guy at autozone before that I have a 2000 Dodge Ram with the cummins engine...next thing he asks: "ohh thats a good engine, but I think the diesels are better."

 

People usually come up to me and say "ooo what a nice dodge you got there, what is that..1500, 2500?"....."no, it's a 3500"...."oh, nice 3/4 tonne, must be a pig on gas"...."no not really" ...(have my truck de-badged)by that time i just stop talking to them. This usually happens at the fuel station.

 

Yea i love the storys too, my mechanic friend works at a buick olds and jeep dealer, knows a guy that has an 01 dmax with one chip and its got over 800 hp and like a 2k lbs of torque. And my one other friend insists his uncles friend has a 99 7.3 with 750 hp with just chips. I just smile and say yea some day ill be there too, i use to argue with them but they no more than me.

 

that's funny!

i'm lovin the stories on this thread too, i've never had anyone say anything stupid ABOUT my truck in this respect

but i have had someone say this "did you know ford owns cummins?" (seriously)

 

Yeah lets keep this thread goin. After church the other night a guy was askin me a few questions about my truck. He runs a ferd parking lot sweeper thats equipped with a 6.9 liter cummins eater! Anyways, he was commenting on how weak it was, and then commented on how good of an engine the cummins was. BUT, then he said, of course the powerstroke is better though cause its got a lot more displacement

 

ex-girlfriend told me one time that her new boyfriend was buying her this cummins on like 40's that got 60 mpg. i thought that was great, glad i wasnt face to face with her when she said that.

 

this guy i used to know was talking to me about his car one time and was bragging about how his car had overdrive and how that gave hiim so much more power. so i tried telling him he dosent have more power becouse of it that its just a gear that'll give you lower rpms at freeway speeds or whatever. I dont think so my car does way better burnouts while im in overdrive. So again i try and explain overdrive and that it'd have no effects on burnouts and how automatic transmissions work and all that stuff. So once again his comeback was well when its in overdrive I can make the back end of the car slide sideways when burning out and going around coners. thats when i gave up with that conversation... it was a front wheel drive some people..

 

Too true, Dave - nothing funnier than real life!

 

I live in Ontario, Canada. Every 2 years we have to get an emission test to make sure our vehicles are tree hugger safe. Now, with a gasser, they stick a probe in your exhaust and the fancy machine does some voodoo and they tell ya if you car passed or failed. The whole thing costs $37.10 with taxes. Now, with a diesel, the test is different. They can't stick anything in the exhaust pipe nor do they have any bechmarks for what constitutes good or bad emissions. So what they do is a mechanic first does a visual check of the exhaust pie to see if it's rusted. Then he starts the truck up and while idling, he puts a white piece of cardbord by the tail pipe and cants to five while he is checking to see any smoke (no load on the engine, heck, they don't even rev it past idle) .

Well guess what. I passed .
I guess you just can't fix stupid

 

Reminds me of califormia emissions check from 70-80's...Had to go to the state rip off (station). If it failed, you had to have a mechanic fix it. If the repair was going to be over $y for x age of car, you could get waived. My pinto never passed in the 80's. Always got waived. Then ~1990 they went totally private...that's when it totally went out the window. I heard stories that you could run just about anything if you had enough money & the inspector (gas station operator) was crooked enough.

Tony

 

I had a co-worker tell me that the hemi was actually a chevy 350 that dodge was buying from GM. I said "REALLY" then turned around and walked away laughing.

 

Since we are talking about funny Diesel stories....

Before I began servicing a fleet for the great state of Tejas >> They had one location with a driver that thought that all diesels used oil... so he started every day by pouring about 1/4 to 1/2 a quart in the truck he was driving and never pulled the stick to check the level... Just added!....

So months go by and he has been driving the same truck and it has started to smoke pretty bad..... The maintenance supervisor (Brilliant guy) pulled the stick and checked the oil to find out that it is WAY over filled!!! So he goes into trouble shooting mode and thinks the crank case is full of fuel (not a bad first shot but check out his method of testing) He gets a paper towel and drips oil from the dipstick onto the paper towel and lights it with a cigarette lighter.... You guessed it! the paper burned!! Now he is convinced that the motor is full of fuel and puts it on a flatbed tractor trailer to the district shop.... Mechanics laughed for weeks!

Makes me glad to pay taxes.... hahahaha

 

Hmm some weird emissions you have up in Ottawa,lol

Trucks running farm plates do not need to get e-tested, however our truck is also under commercial use, so we get it done every 2 years(just like you) But our test consists of idling, 2 snap throttle tests and one slow throttle test..all while having all the electronics plugged in, and the robot thinger in the exhaust(sits in the tip about 4 inches)

 

Here your SIGN

 

at my previous job (feed store) I left everyday through a gate, and this fella would always shut the gate after I went through it, so he heard my truck take off everyday. Now, one day, as I had to get on the highway pretty quickly, I stepped on when I was leaving, but I made sure I was a little ways away from him before I did it. Well, the next day, we're talking and I said, "hey I apologize for yesterday if I shot any smoke on you when I left." He kind of looked confused for a second and said, "you mean tire smoke?' I said no diesel smoke... he was like..."thats a diesel?" I said yep. (here's the stupid part)... he says, "wow, it doesn't sound like a real diesel, it sounds different." I just laughed and said oh...it doesn't have a muffler.

I'm not sure what real diesels are, maybe powerstrokes?