2005 - F250 diesel - your opinon please

Hank85713 wrote:
EOT Engine oil temp
ECT engine coolant temp

And ford is dropping the cummins from the bigger trucks as the new PSD is all they will offer.

Also anything less than 15 deg delts is good as it indicates that the oil cooler/egr are doing their jobs. The engine oil is cooled via the liquid to liquid oil cooler in the engine. Many late model veh's use this technique to keep their engines together. My son in law had a water hose let go on his mazda sedan I didnt know they were using them and ended up with warped heads!

Yes there are many acronyms for everything and as I said do your homework on the truck. My family has them and we are happy with them. SOme folks harp about them! On our trip this summer as noted by someone else, ther are many 6.0 PSD's towing and out on the roads. The issues on any board are from the few that are making the rest look bad, and ford and international did not help matters. The put out a product that they thought was ready with supposedly a million miles worth of testing and failed to prepare the work force to be able to work on them as required. International built the engine and has run it successfully so you really cant say its a terrible engine. It has it warts courtesy of ford, but the basic power plant is good IF its taken care of and in some cases even if its not.

thanks hank
now that makes sense on the difference between the engine oil and cooling water temp and why it matters.

On Powerstrokenation.com forum there is a cool feature that when a acronym like EGT is used it show up in green and you put the pointer on it and the actual name pops up you know what the shortened version stands for.

Just like when i was in the army it takes a couple years or better to get a handle on all the acronyms used and some you only see every so often which make them harder.

thanks again.