I had a '92 Dodge. It got 25 mpg on the highway and 22mpg in town. 17 mpg pulling a 20 ft. gooseneck full of cattle. That Cummins back then was a great engine.
But the truck started falling apart around 4 years old. And it was the loudest diesel in the entire world.
Great engine, great transmission(manual) and rear end. Everything else was junk.
I had to get rid of it at 166K miles cause after paying it off, I was spending just as much a month to keep it together as I was paying for the note on it.
Paid $21K new and sold 4 years later and all I could get was $5K for it.
It is still running today, but not legal to put on the road. Farmer that bought it uses it to move stuff around his place. Put a flat bed on it and putt putts with it.
Can't kill the engine, but Dodge built terrible trucks.
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