Purchasing Ford F350 Dually, Need Advice
Hello all, Been some time since we posted here. We live in Everett, WA on board our boat. Which we have loved. Now we are looking at purchasing another Cab Over to do some land cruising in addition t...
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Candid...... the flood gates will open. Haters of all types will come out of the wood work.
I own trucks from all three manufactures (well, actually not true now; we just dumped our duramax 3500 at an auction. Don't even get me going about their chitty rear end designs).
For our camper, we stayed with the 6.0... despite all the hooplah, it's a good engine. It has its problems, but their pretty straight forward and fairly consistent. The 6.4... not so consistent. I'm in agreement that he 6.7 is holding to be a really good power plant, but newer means more money. Here's where our thinking took us.
As a company, I had good luck with the 7.3's; but as stated, they're getting old. And it's not just the engine that wears out.
We've had good luck with the 6.0's too. When they go, it's usually the head studs. It's a 5k fix.
Sound's expensive, but when you consider that you can get fairly low mileage 6.0's (2006's and 7's) for decently low prices, it's not such a bad deal. Best guess, you're going to spend 10k + or more to get a newer 2009/10/11 for similar mileage. So for us, even if we bought the used truck (which we did, the '07) and had to turn around and dump 5 or 6k into it, we were still ahead. 'Cause the fix is usually good for another 100k plus and we're still under what a newer rig would have cost us. And chances are, we won't have to fix it.
I've got two 6.0's left. One is 150k w/studs, and our RV model has 200k and I don't know if the studs have been done.
Lot's of ways to think about things... lot's of ideas, "facts" (yea, right) and opinions. To each there own. Good luck in the hunt.
I own trucks from all three manufactures (well, actually not true now; we just dumped our duramax 3500 at an auction. Don't even get me going about their chitty rear end designs).
For our camper, we stayed with the 6.0... despite all the hooplah, it's a good engine. It has its problems, but their pretty straight forward and fairly consistent. The 6.4... not so consistent. I'm in agreement that he 6.7 is holding to be a really good power plant, but newer means more money. Here's where our thinking took us.
As a company, I had good luck with the 7.3's; but as stated, they're getting old. And it's not just the engine that wears out.
We've had good luck with the 6.0's too. When they go, it's usually the head studs. It's a 5k fix.
Sound's expensive, but when you consider that you can get fairly low mileage 6.0's (2006's and 7's) for decently low prices, it's not such a bad deal. Best guess, you're going to spend 10k + or more to get a newer 2009/10/11 for similar mileage. So for us, even if we bought the used truck (which we did, the '07) and had to turn around and dump 5 or 6k into it, we were still ahead. 'Cause the fix is usually good for another 100k plus and we're still under what a newer rig would have cost us. And chances are, we won't have to fix it.
I've got two 6.0's left. One is 150k w/studs, and our RV model has 200k and I don't know if the studs have been done.
Lot's of ways to think about things... lot's of ideas, "facts" (yea, right) and opinions. To each there own. Good luck in the hunt.
