2012 6.7 Diesel
I'm looking to buy a 2012 f350 super duty 6.7 TD CC LB 4X4. I'll be pulling a 12,500 lb. 5th wheel trailer. My question is how many miles is too many for this truck? I'm new to diesels and from what I...
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Turtle n Peeps wrote:
Preventing catastrophic engine failure. Change those early glow plugs boys.
Now that I'm at it, I didn't mention valve cracking problems.
I also was remiss in not mentioning the tons of turbo failures they had.
Interesting that Ford fixed ALL of these problems later on. The valve issue were listed up the 2015 in their TSB's. Pretty telling.
The glow plug clown is in error.
The cracked valve problem was poor heat treating and corrected on trucks produced after 3/28/2011.
The TSB you are referring to, I believe, was a noise problem addressed by a customer advisory on how to operate a diesel.
The ceramic turbo bearings did have a higher failure rate than later steel bearings.
