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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 527300" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>problem here is that most folks that use a 3/4 ton or a one ton truck want a deisel with an automatic transmission. That's a different ball game that a gas engine half ton. Ford can't keep automatic transmissions behind their deisels. Dodge is going to switch over to the Asian or the ZF light duty automatic (the Asian is nothing but an Allison AT542 with a park brake). G.M. of course uses the Allison LCT 1000 transmission. Toyota has inquired with Cummins (like Ford) about using their six cylinder engine. Can't be done as Chrysler owns the engine lock stock and barrel (including the copyrights), but the two could buy the engine from Chrysler. Ain't happening in this lifetime. But on the otherhand Nissan is working on a new heavyduty design that will be built by Dodge. There's a chance it might see a Cummins engine (kinda slim but a chance). CAT has been in off and on talks with one of the big three for two years or more, and power packs have been on the dynos. Problem is they are not producing great fuel milage, but have more power than any sane person can use. This time next year there will be a new ten speed gear box on the market that will not violate a certain piece of contractual language, and this may open some doors with the asian markets in the one ton and up catagories. The world of heavy duty trucks is a wild market to be in, and sometime around 2020 that market is set to explode like a hydrogen bomb! It would right now but for paragraph in a contract has it shuttered. The stuff for the 2017 and later time frame is already on the dynos, and we're gonna like what we see</p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 527300, member: 25383"] problem here is that most folks that use a 3/4 ton or a one ton truck want a deisel with an automatic transmission. That's a different ball game that a gas engine half ton. Ford can't keep automatic transmissions behind their deisels. Dodge is going to switch over to the Asian or the ZF light duty automatic (the Asian is nothing but an Allison AT542 with a park brake). G.M. of course uses the Allison LCT 1000 transmission. Toyota has inquired with Cummins (like Ford) about using their six cylinder engine. Can't be done as Chrysler owns the engine lock stock and barrel (including the copyrights), but the two could buy the engine from Chrysler. Ain't happening in this lifetime. But on the otherhand Nissan is working on a new heavyduty design that will be built by Dodge. There's a chance it might see a Cummins engine (kinda slim but a chance). CAT has been in off and on talks with one of the big three for two years or more, and power packs have been on the dynos. Problem is they are not producing great fuel milage, but have more power than any sane person can use. This time next year there will be a new ten speed gear box on the market that will not violate a certain piece of contractual language, and this may open some doors with the asian markets in the one ton and up catagories. The world of heavy duty trucks is a wild market to be in, and sometime around 2020 that market is set to explode like a hydrogen bomb! It would right now but for paragraph in a contract has it shuttered. The stuff for the 2017 and later time frame is already on the dynos, and we're gonna like what we see gary [/QUOTE]
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