Ford 6.7 with spun connecting rod bearing

StirCrazy wrote:

Cradz350 wrote:

StirCrazy wrote:

Cradz350 wrote:
New turbo is part of the oil system...bearings metal shavings could have damaged. I actually saw the write up for the other spun bearing truck as well as polled the other dealers. There's a reason the connecting rods were updated in 17.

funny how no one wants to take a few min and inspect parts for dammage, just through parts at it (the dealer not you) they do it because if somjmething is wrong with the new engine it is the factories issue and they are not out of pocket, but if they repair the motor and somthing is wrong now it is there fault, just a pass the buck game.

so I searched on the diesel forums I am on, I found 5 berring failures and 4 of them were rod berrings. one was a 2015 one was a 2017. very far from common, but one had the same experiance as you with the dealer and pricing inflation.. the stories were so close I thought it was yours at first, but it was 3 years ago. it its thought the general cause was using the wrong oil weight but no one is sure. but it is plane with the number of units on the road now that it is far from common.

normaly when we see something blowing up on the diesel forums it isnt realy common yet, but it is getting there, there just isnt any activity on this issue, just a stroke of dumb luck.

You found 5 and I know of two at the dealership where my truck is resting comfortably. The idea Ford's flagship engine with the 10K option cost has done this at all is insane, but if there's one or two at every dealership...this is definitely a trend. Starts smelling like class action time. I hear a lot of people bash the 6.0...mine never died this bad.

if there is one or two at every dealership considering how many have been sold since 2012 it is far from a trend, it is a very very small sample. 6L were the worst I personaly know 6 people that broke them, but having said that it was because of people hopping them up. if left stock they were pretty deicent. the 6.7 berring issues that I found were related to oil quality and change intervals. I would never run conventional oil in my 6.7 and go by the change timer. I do run rotella T6 and go by the change timer though. lots of heat in these motors. my truck has had every common issue, lucky I bought extended warenty, but it choaked me that while buddy might have one issue and another might have another, I had them all. Ill check with the two dealers in town to see what they have seen but extensive searches and I have only found this as the most comon issues.

EGT Sensor Failure
EGR Cooler Clogging
Injection Pump Failure
Radiator Coolant Leaks
Turbocharger Problems.

but hey if you see an article or somthing send it my way, I am always up for reading about stuff like this.

There are 3000 dealers in the US...if you figure 1,000,000 engines made and 3 bearing failures per dealerships...the rate would be 9/10 of a percent. Couple this almost 1 percent Failure rate with the extreme cost of repairs and this is massively bad Ford PR.