Looking at used Ford F-350 high miles

FishOnOne wrote:

Grit dog wrote:

352 wrote:
I really cant believe they said that. Our dates have not changed in 17 years. If nobody comes than we are not going to be able to do this again. So please let me know if this is OK with you if we can continue our formal mediation. Are you confused or is it my brother? I sure hope this helps. Thanks

Anyone else find this weirder than Fishes posts?? ^^

Yeah.... OK

Just flipping you shiiii
You ever come up to WA?
I love to buy you a beer or 6.

blofgren wrote:

mabynack wrote:

FishOnOne wrote:

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

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.

Between my BIL and myself we each owned a 6.0 PSD in which no injectors were ever replaced and our family farm/ranch owned two dodge cummins trucks in which 6 injectors were replaced. I'm sure his C95 injectors will be just fine and last for thousands of miles as long as a Ford/Racor fuel filters is used.

Grit dog wrote:

352 wrote:
I really cant believe they said that. Our dates have not changed in 17 years. If nobody comes than we are not going to be able to do this again. So please let me know if this is OK with you if we can continue our formal mediation. Are you confused or is it my brother? I sure hope this helps. Thanks

Anyone else find this weirder than Fishes posts?? ^^

Yeah.... OK

mabynack wrote:

FishOnOne wrote:

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

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.

352 wrote:
I really cant believe they said that. Our dates have not changed in 17 years. If nobody comes than we are not going to be able to do this again. So please let me know if this is OK with you if we can continue our formal mediation. Are you confused or is it my brother? I sure hope this helps. Thanks

Anyone else find this weirder than Fishes posts?? ^^

FishOnOne wrote:

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

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.

Expand your view, the internet is full of companies that supply the parts for the conversion to a Fummins. They would not exist if there was not a market for their products.

I actually looked into swapping my 6.0 for a Cummins when I was having all the issues with it. The total cost to have someone else do the swap was just under $20,000. I've done several swaps myself and I know that there are usually a lot of additional costs that crop up along the way, so this figure might have been a little low.

FishOnOne wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:

FishOnOne wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:

dodge guy wrote:

Charlie D. wrote:

FishOnOne wrote:
For the 03-07 model diesel trucks still on the road today, I still see by large more 6.0 PSD Super Duty's still on the road than the other two diesel brands combined. And IMO the Super Duty is the best truck platform with the best transmission.

Does that mean that Ford sold more 6.0 than GM and Ram combined?

It just means that what you don't see has been junked. And what's left of the 6.OH's on the road have had a lot of $$$$$ put into them to keep them going!

Lots with a Cummins conversion.

I've never seen a Ford truck with a cummins conversion and I've seen a lot of them.

What I don't see anymore are the dodge 6.7 cummins Blue Tec badged trucks. :W

It really was fun to drive.

Driving a underpowered turd is not my idea of fun. I seen a many old restored Ford vehicle with a Chevy engine/tranny, but again never seen one with a cummins installed nor do I know anymore who has any ambition to install one either.

Speaking of underpowered I drove a coworkers Dodge 5.9 last Friday to try to help him with a starting issue and I didn't have the heart to tell him how terrible the power was, cracked dashboard, everything rattled in the dash, air leaks around the door seals his truck exhibited although it did have ~220k miles and last year replaced the injector pump. It surprisingly still had the original transmission.

Well Fish, here is one in progress!!

Isn't the first or the last

Destroked projects

I really cant believe they said that. Our dates have not changed in 17 years. If nobody comes than we are not going to be able to do this again. So please let me know if this is OK with you if we can continue our formal mediation. Are you confused or is it my brother? I sure hope this helps. Thanks

dodge guy wrote:

FishOnOne wrote:


It is what it is. Having said that you can polish a turd all you want but at the end of the day your still left holding a turd. And a transmission rebuild to boot.

That statement is as old as the people that buy GM trucks!!!

He just is challenged to be a grown up person.