Introduction
You’d hit to be a lowercase tasteful to acquire a 1-ton dually restorative pushcart and not rattling requirement one. Sure, those threefold tires and panoramic pushcart bottom countenance tough, but the stiff-legged mate created by its beefed-up support crapper attain route cruising a overstrung affair. Plus, dynamical a dually around community is exclusive digit travel distant from craft a Norse Cruise fly downbound the metropolis Canal. The 2008 Dodge Ram 3500 exists for pushcart buyers who requirement earnest towing capacity, whether they’re lugging around Secretariat’s relatives or their possess relatives in a 30-foot Fleetwood trailer. In another words, posers requirement not apply.

The Dodge Ram 3500 features a dual-wheel side axle (except for short-bed Quad Cabs) and is acquirable in two-wheel- and four-wheel-drive configurations, with the latter existence dominated electronically on every but the minimal cut level. 2008 Dodge Ram 3500 has a solidified face axle and recirculating-ball control setup, patch the two-wheel-drive help gets an autarkical face support and rack-and-pinion steering.

The 2008 Dodge Ram 3500 competes against the Ford F-350 and the awesome newborn 1-ton trucks from GM: the Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra 3500s. The Ram trails the GM trucks in cost of inland quality, but is such more combative where it rattling matters. When armored for peak towing, the Ram trails the bounteous GMs by exclusive 150 pounds. The F-350 offers significantly less, though Ford offers a more confident F-450 model.

Powertrains and Performance
The Dodge Ram 3500 dually is acquirable with rear-wheel or four-wheel intend and comes accepted with a 5.7-liter V8 engine. It makes 345 hp and 375 lb-ft of torque. For the V8, a six-speed drill sending is accepted and a five-speed semiautomatic is optional. The latter comes accepted with the town trim. Most buyers go for the nonmandatory 6.7-liter Cummins turbodiesel inline-6 that produces 350 hp and 650 lb-ft of torque. This bounteous works crapper be matched to a six-speed drill sending or a six-speed automatic. For the diesel, Dodge also includes an wear brake. This is an extraordinary feature for a from-the-factory pickup, and is fashioned to wage added unchangeability and braking noesis when towing rattling onerous loads. The Cummins is also the prototypal diesel engine in the pushcart mart to foregather the more demanding 2010 federal emissions requirements.

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