6.4L Hemi (Truck Engine) Future?

[04Ram2500Hemi]

The Hemi is a great platform for the Power Wagon (at least for me). I had a 2012 with the 5.7L and it was a pretty good truck (it was matched with 4.56 gears so fuel economy was pretty much TRX bad).

What I would really like to see is a new HD Motor that has 500hp/500tq. That would be a great setup (along with 35" tires) for the Power Wagon.

 

[AW608]

I owned plenty of Cummins engines the 6.7 and the X15 in the Peterbuilts and I'm just going to say diesels are unmatched in power and reliability by gas engines. I owned 6 HD 3500 Ram trucks and one of them was a gasser. My dad wanted to buy a gasser for the company just to see what it was like. It was a 2019 tradesman. 70,000 miles the gas truck started giving us major problems and every other week it was getting work done most of it under warranty. I'm sure Ram lost money on our gas truck since when I sold it it had 95,000 miles it had been to the dealership 9 times, 8 were warranty fixes. Since then we moved to semi trucks but i kept my 2013 since it was my father's truck he gave to me when I turned 16 and I unfortunately lost him right before we were going to buy our first semi, and it was my first car ever. It now has 620,000 miles and it's still very reliable. I still tow my camper with it and sometimes move my project cars with it. I'll say out of the 620,000 at least 500,000 was with a trailer, at least 400,000 miles with 25,000 pounds or more in the back. Stock motor, stock turbo only things been replaced was the transmission at about 430,000 miles (It has the Aisin not the 68rfe). If you take care of diesels BY THE BOOK (not the computer) and don't skip the fluid changes or filter changes they'll last forever. Cummins, powerstrokes, duramaxes, detroit, cat, whatever. Electric may have the raw horsepower and torque of a diesel I don't know about reliability and it sure as hell doesn't have the range yet. Gassers don't have either. It's possible that my gas truck was a lemon but what are the odds, 6 diesels all lasted well beyond 250,000 mile mark but the one gasser I had to trade in before warranty ended. Work trucks have to be diesel. Unless you just want a big truck to say you have a big truck don't get a gasser. Not even taking into consideration the resale value of a gas HD truck, or the 3-6 MPG difference with weight in the back (depends on how much weight obviously). We don't just do hotshot so it wasn't all highway miles. We have a construction company and a dumpster rental company. If you ever been in the dumpster rental business you know nobody follows the weight rules and the landfills are hell on the trucks. Towing an overloaded dumpster up a muddy hill watching for metal and other shit sticking out of the mud. I say I tested these trucks pretty well and they've been tossed through drivers hands and drivers don't give a flying fuck about your equipment.

There is zero chance I keep anything longer than 5 years so it's def not getting 600k miles haha
My truck is right at GVW of 19,500 and it's gets around just fine. It's a work truck after all, it just needs to get to a jobsite to make money doesn't need to be fast or impressive. I'd rather spend that extra money on fun things.
Best trucks I've ever had were T-270 KW's but they are way too big for the places I go now. Really about any of the larger trucks seem to have way less problems vs smaller trucks. Any service truck right now has insane resale value doesn't matter what it is. Getting a new bed right now or truck is a year out at most up fitters. Eventually this will change but it might be a few years.

Both the Cat dealer and JD dealer here no longer get 550/5500 diesel trucks, the Cat guys said they can get several extra trucks per year just in the savings.
My buddy has right now has at dealers 21 F550 needs injectors/fuel system, 21 or 22 dump truck 6.7 needs an engine(18k mi) that's 4 months out, 2020 550 that needs a transmission and a 20 5500 that quit running and had to get towed in. They are a very large rental company and he said the last 2 new trucks they got haven't been diesel either. The new diesels (work trucks) being the most reliable thing ever just hasn't been my experience. I mean my shit might blow up tomorrow but the last two I've had have been zero problems. I do like driving diesels but if I were to buy one it would need some lightweight mods done first thing. Then the problem of if anything happens to it without certain things installed on it you're paying to fix it.

 

[Two]

Best trucks I've ever had were T-270 KW's but they are way too big for the places I go now. Really about any of the larger trucks seem to have way less problems vs smaller trucks.

Trust me, I've questioned the wisdom of selling a perfectly good Peterbilt and use a Ram 3500 for towing instead.
Especially since the mileage is comparable.