Looking at used Ford F-350 high miles

blofgren wrote:

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CampingN.C. wrote:
Lot's of the issues had with mine was mis-diagnoses and money spent where it shouldn't have been, causing the company to scrap them due to expense. For example, four injectors being replaced when it was paint from the fuel tank was clogging the fuel lines.

Troy, you know 6.0's inside and out. You ever hear of paint in fuel lines? :B

I hate it when you get paint in the fuel lines. :B

My 6.0 kept stalling when I was cruising down the road and when I researched it on the internet there were several reports of this happening. Ford used an anti-corrosion coating on the inside of the metal fuel tanks and it chipped off and clogged the fuel filters.

My truck had the plastic tanks and my issue turned out to be a broken spring in the fuel pressure regulator. It was a known problem and the new part cost $30. Unfortunately for me, the dealer elected to clean my turbocharger for $1200 first. When that didn't work they swapped out the $30 spring.

The big issue you may have now is failing injectors because they have now been subjected to low fuel pressure which starves them and causes them to scar internally.

It would be one thing if it was just one or two issues to deal with to bulletproof the 6.0L, but unfortunately there's a whole shopping list of issues to deal with.

On top of the mechanical issues, I dealt with a shady repairman. When the engine came apart a year after he worked on it, the machine shop and the new repair shop said that the valve job I paid for hadn't been done, the injectors hadn't been checked, and the oil cooler had been cleaned and reinstalled - not replaced like the work order said. The crooked repair shops know that there's no way of verifying their work without tearing down the engine again.