Alarming spalling failures on 7.3 Godzilla
Ford 7.3 Godzilla failures As a normal course of action I don't recommend oil sampling. In this case, I break from that recommendation. If I owned one of these engines I would oil sample religiousl...
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Danger Don wrote:Grit dog wrote:
Man, Fish fired a good shot over the bow with the tow rating thread and the Ram Mafia retorts with this ballistic missle! Game on!
(Poor Chevy guys get left in the reserves again….maybe we should all buy Chebbys!)
Not really, that GM 6.6 gas motor is fast gaining a reputation for choking a lifter or dropping a cam, and it appears the cold start piston slap knock that plagued the 2000ish LM7 5300's has been reincarnated in the 6.6.
This thread is great reading, as is some of the responses to your post in the EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks thread regarding " GM just sunk a boatload of $ into the next gen V8 engine"
To some the responders I offer the following links. I might suggest searching for "Top Tier Management" or "Engineering" LOL
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Dang man! I had a 2020 5.3 Chebby that puked a lifter in each bank a month apart. And it was in the shop for 3 weeks for the first side! Lol.
Piston slap, I’m ok with. Loose motors are healthy motors. BTW a little dose of 20W50 quiets em right down! Lol
Edit and an 08 or 09 that ate valvetrain components. But a 2016 that never got opened up in the 140k miles I had it or was around it after I passed it down.
Guess they’re all the best of all junk depending on what day of the week.
