Looking at used Ford F-350 high miles
I am looking at some used 05-07 Ford F 350 Duals, 6.0 diesel, with around 200,000 miles, just to pull my TT and assorted camping gear. We expect 6-7 trips per year, 100-300 miles trips. I am fully a...
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transamz9 wrote:shum02 wrote:transferred wrote:Grit dog wrote:
All I can say is there's a reason you're finding those in your budget and not the other 2.
To be fair though, 200kmi on any diesel or any vehicle for that fact opens up a lot of "possible" and some probable failures.
Any 10+year old truck with 6-9000engine hours is a gamble. Just that the house wins more often with a 6.0.
Where do you figure 6-9,000 hours? My truck has 142,000 miles and 3300 hours. 6 would-be at the high end of a 200k truck, 9 would only apply to a beaten oil field rig.
Yup, spending most of it's time idling with an average speed around 22mph. A gummed up truck that would be. Idling absolutely kills this truck. The higher the average speed over the life of this motor the better. Mine is over 40mph.
I just had on of our 06 Cummins in the shop last week replacing the seat cover, new exhaust, oil change , 3 light bulbs, and inner tie rod ends. It has 10,800 hours on it and 207,000 miles.
The I6 Cummins does much better sitting around idling then the V8 PSD's and Duramax engines. Hence why it's found in low speed generator and pump duties. My engine.....not a chance.
BTW mine is still the OEM exhaust on a truck driven in the road salt capital of Canada, not to shabby ;)
