Hi guys, my stepdad and I got into a little debate over this last weekend. FWIW, I was arguing for the Cummins -- my position was that it's twice as big yet gets almost the same fuel economy lugging a three-quarter-ton pickup around as the Merc gets pulling a sedan body, and never wears out. He shot back that it's just because the Merc body is built to the same standards as the engine, that it still looks good at half a million miles but a Dodge pickup is falling apart around the engine by that point, which makes the engine look more heroic in comparison. He then goes on to tell me there are 617 engines with a million miles on them and he doesn't know of any 5.9 Cummins that's made it that far without a rebuild.

Hey, he might be right. Whadda you guys think?

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Finn John -- Albany, Ore.
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