Changing my truck!
This was kind of spontaneous, hopefully a good decision. What I have is a '99 F350SRW 7.3L with airbags and no other major mods. What I just bought for a screaming deal is an '03 F350DRW 6.0L Lariat s...
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I hope you have better luck with your 6.0 than I've had with mine. I replaced a Fuel Injection Control Module at 80,000 miles and another one at 96,000. That was about $800 a pop. I had brake issues where the driver's side front brake would lock up going down the road - I took it to the shop twice for that at $1600 a visit. At 106,000 I blew a head gasket and had the truck "bulletproofed" by a shop that I wouldn't recommend. It cost me $8000. About six months later the truck developed an intermittent miss and I took it to the dealer. They cleaned the turbo for $1300 and replaced a weak fuel pressure regulator spring. At 110,000 the intermittent miss became a dead miss on #8 cylinder. The first shop that bulletproofed the engine had gone out of business, so I took it to a different shop. They determined that:
1. The cam follower and injector had failed scattering metal parts throughout the engine and caused bent pushrods and bent valves.
2. A lot of the work that I had paid the previous shop for hadn't been done. The valve job that I had paid for wasn't done and the previous shop had charged me for a new oil cooler, but had just cleaned the old one and reinstalled it.
That second trip cost me another $7000.
Right now the truck is running better than it ever has - knock on wood. The rest of the truck is great. It's just been the engine and brakes that have given me issues.
1. The cam follower and injector had failed scattering metal parts throughout the engine and caused bent pushrods and bent valves.
2. A lot of the work that I had paid the previous shop for hadn't been done. The valve job that I had paid for wasn't done and the previous shop had charged me for a new oil cooler, but had just cleaned the old one and reinstalled it.
That second trip cost me another $7000.
Right now the truck is running better than it ever has - knock on wood. The rest of the truck is great. It's just been the engine and brakes that have given me issues.
