7.3L VS. 6.7L PSD

mountainkowboy wrote:


A 2002 F450 was available from Ford in all cab configurations and in 2 and 4 wheel drive, we had them at work, and they were ordered from Ford fleet sales.

What's vulnerable about the ZF-6? It's a great transmission.

I've had two 7.3 PSD's, and both were "tuned" and were MORE than capable to stay with a 6.7. I've tried the 6.7, I have friends that own them...not impressed enough by them for the price hit over a well tuned 7.3...and by well tuned I mean not an OTC OBDII plug-n-play program. It's EASY to get big HP from them.

I guess to each there own...I'm a gearhead and do ALL my own work, I enjoy it, and I don't like the new "electric fantastic" vehicles. The more complex they make them, the more expensive they are to fix and harder to diagnosis. Maybe I'm just to cheap, but the newer trucks are just ridiculously priced, even used. I have better things to do with my cash.

I am also a gear head and work on my own 2014 6.7L Cummins. It is really not that hard and most stuff can be diagnosed with my torque app on my phone and my OBDLink connector. It allows me to view all sorts of parameters to correctly diagnose an issue. In fact I just diagnosed a HPFP low power issue on a friends LML. Both cost me less than $100 and reads from the same type of ECM on the late 7.3L trucks.

I have done all of my engine modifications myself from EGR/DPF system removal to pyro/boost sensor install. When the time comes, I will do my turbo/manifold swap as well. Although I would probably not want to do it on a new Powerstroke though. My brother asked me to look into an issue he had with his 2012 PSD and I just popped the hood and said nope. I could hardly see the engine and would have had to remove a ton of stuff just to get to what I needed to see.