Diesel class c

AJR wrote:
God bless you diesel folks. Did one and never would do it again. I will say it was a 6.0 Ford diesel. Like the first ones produced. It was so expensive to keep going for the first 60k miles. After that it was a great puller for my TT.

My experience is they are costly to keep running. I know “other brands” are different. But if something goes wrong. There is a bunch of money involved to get it right.

You happened to buy the worst model diesel engine ever made and I'm sorry it was your first experience with diesels. The 6.0 was Ford's first in-house attempt at it, and the additional complications made by new emissions requirements made the engine exceptionally problematic. It also had only four bolts per cylinder head, which often resulted in cracked cylinder heads from overboost conditions. (7.3L has 6) The fuel injection module could fail in low voltage conditions, and it was placed on top of the engine where it was subject to extreme temperatures and vibrations that caused the solder joints to fail.

The subsequent 6.4 and 6.7 liter engines have done much better. My own personal opinion is that the best, simplest, most durable and reliable diesel ford ever put in their trucks is the 7.3L made by International. This is the engine that directly preceded yours and was only discontinued due to its inability to meet new emissions requirements. International made over two million of them. I bought my 2000 F250 when it was 9 years old and already had 93k miles on it. (it was babied and taken care of by a racing mechanic.) Since then I have put 60,000 more miles on it without a single problem. Just changed the oil and filters. It is chipped with a hypertech controller and develops an enormous amount of power. Very happy towing with it. Just goes up the hills like there isn't anything there.