2007 Ford 250 6.0 Diesel
Looking to purchase a 2007 Ford 250 6.0 diesel that has been bullet proofed. Would this be a good dependable Ford 250 to pull a Jayco 7900 pound dry weight Fifth Wheel as well as a daily driver.
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Hank85713 wrote:
Again go to the truck specific forums, the ford gold is the main suspect for clogged egr/oil coolers. Get catapiller ELC but dont use the ford gold. The ELC is a pink/purplish in color, nothing green and I dont think the orange color is any good either.
The forums will also recommend a coolant filter just like the big trucks have (and school buses) I also run a amsoil bypass oil filter setup on mine. Do you have access to a scan gauge of any sort? again try to find someone familiar with this setup and have them take a look. Not all gm or dodge products are purfect either so you can also find a dog in them. Just read thru their forums for their issues. Buying anything used is buying a pig in a poke, be it ford, gm or dodge. No matter what you buy, be sure to have some extra funds available to fix whatever you find. old dodges have block and dowel pin issues, gms had wiring issues and fuel pumps. So there is no gauranties that any of them will be problem free, but ya need to go to the right forums and research the engine of choice you are interested in.
Casting sand is the primary detractor for clogging the oil cooler. I don't remember the details but the amount of solids in the Gold coolant is very little and the flashing of the coolant in the EGR cooler which produces some solids to form out of suspension the actual root cause is the cooler is already becoming clogged reducing coolant volume to effectively cool the EGR cooler which in return cooks the coolant as it travels thru the EGR cooler causing the solids to come out of suspension. All trucks were produced with Gold coolant, but not all trucks oil coolers got clogged. Having said that I'm not aware of any issues with running a ELC coolant in these trucks either and although the 6.7 runs a form of ELC coolant it's still not downward compatible for use in a 6.0 truck. I suspect there's probably a materials compatibility issue some where in the coolant circuit outside the motor.
Navistar actually put coolant filters on some of their trucks for a certain period of time due to the casting sand while running a ELC coolant.
