2005 F 250 Super Duty Question...Long Ramble

You had me up to your last statement. I can understand you don't like the engine, the reputation or your experience but why ask/attack others for owning or liking them? Can't we all like different trucks for different reasons. I notice whenever someone asks any 6.0L questions the threads starts with the trucks then the insults sling then the thread gets closed down. We need a little more decorum here.

Flashman wrote:

blofgren wrote:

rowekmr wrote:
Yeah I have heard from a few shops that the Internationals 6.0l in the MDT that didn't have the hotter tuning by Ford had a much better track record. I also think they had less or none of the emission equipment but not sure.

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

Most of the 6.0 problems were related to the emissions equipment and not from the factory tuning.

Not according to Ford's own internal email documents that were presented in court. :E According to Ford "they" went over spec by a bunch with cylinder pressure.

It has been said that the detuned version in the E Series vans were better too; as you can see in my earlier posts our 2 at work definitely blow this myth out of the water. I would actually say they have been worse than the F-450 and F-550 crew cab dumps that we have (and had) and they have been far from stellar themselves.

The other issue that it has caused for us at work is cutting into production big time. Guys waiting for tow trucks, switching tools and materials into loaner and rental trucks and then back countless numbers of times takes its toll on productivity. We actually talked several times that these trucks could very well put a small or even mid size company out of business with the downtime and huge repair bills. And these trucks have been maintained VERY well with oil changes every 5k kms (3k miles) and more than recommended fuel filter, coolant changes, etc. all with Motorcraft filters. These issues are NOT related to lack of maintenance.

Well said.

A powerful condemnation of the Ford 6.0. And of the fact that Ford keep selling them for years after it became known how bad they were.

The real mystery was why people keep buying them??

As someone posted before - battered wife syndrome.