Love My 6.0L Ford

Lantley wrote:

shum02 wrote:

rowekmr wrote:
Why do you feel it is necessary to express your negative points after an owner merely stated his positive experiences?

Lantley wrote:

Bedlam wrote:
Unfortunately, there is always someone that tries to spoil someone's positive experience or recent purchase by posting negatively instead of being happy for the OP.

It's not so much people wanting to ruin the OP's positive experience.
It's to point out that despite the OP's positive experience the 6.0 has been a problem plagued engine since its inception.
At this point I could not recommend that someone purchase a 6.0.
There are simply other less risky/costly options.

I am happy for the OP, however I still do not see the 6.0 as a quality/reliable engine.
The 6.0's notoriously terrible reputation is too horrible to ignore.

Hard to believe that International made about 2 million of the engines with all the "issues" they had with it. You'd have thought someone would have told them sometime around 2004 that it was time to throttle back, hard to believe they continued to make them till after 2007. 2 million made........I must have been really lucky to get a good one ....:R

What's harder to believe is they never got it totally right. Ford and Navistar eventually severed their relationship over the matter..
It is sort of unbelievable. What's even funnier is I'm not making this stuff up!
I imagine if they could do it all over again both Ford and Navistar would have agreed to throttle back. They both could have saved a lot of money and avoided huge losses.
Fact can often be stranger than fiction
Ford now produces their own engines.

Didn't Ford make a tactical mistake by not following Navistars lead and adding coolant filters on all their 6.0 diesel? Seems I remember reading somewhere that Navistar retrofitted coolant filters to their version of the 6.0 and had nearly zero problems.

Had ford done the same they would probably have reduced warrenty claims significantly.

What would have really cost Ford to do that? $150.00 per truck...$150.00*2,000,000 units. That's about 300 million and could have easily been passed on to the consumer in new units.

At least that would have taken care of most of the clogged coolers.

Thanks!

Jeremiah