Love My 6.0L Ford

bigburg wrote:
I know i am among the minority of 6.0L who is willing to be vocal about being happy with there truck. Which I guess is normal considering people who are happy are content and need not say much while those who are angry simply must express there emotion and experience.
My truck is a 2005 Lariat Crew Cab 4x4 SWB with 199,805 miles. She has been rock solid and looks and runs like new. Have replaced one FICM and one EGR valve plus regular wear items like brake pads.
I drive her off road she pulls hauls and generally earns her keep. Overall I love my truck.
I know many have had issues with the 6.0L but my story is one of success which I though I would share as I am close to 200K miles know.

I have a similar truck, except not a 4X4. I love the truck, but the engine started causing problems at around 96,000 miles. I attribute the problems to two things.

1. I put a tuner on it and blew a head gasket.
2. The coolant blew out due to the head gasket problem and the shop that worked on it put the wrong coolant in it. The coolant superheated and formed silicate crystals the clogged the oil cooler and EGR Cooler, further damaging the engine.

If I could go back in time I wouldn't have towed using an aftermarket tuner and I would have installed a coolant filter.

I decided to fix the truck rather than trade it or sell it because it's really a great truck. I just spent $8000 "bulletproofing" it and hopefully will get another hundred thousand miles on it.