Question About Ford 6.0 Diesel
I just bought a 2003 ford F350 6.0 Turbo Diesel with 119,000 miles. It is pristine, but now I read that they are absolute junk, and I am uncertain if I should keep it, and try to use it as a tow ve...
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mudfuel07 wrote:
You've always got the Chicken Little's of the world. Put a good coolant filter on it, keep up on maintenance and occasionally beat it like a red headed step child and you should be good. Either delete the EGR or buy a Bulletproof system and change the oil cooler while you're in there and you should have a solid, trouble free truck.
Ditto on the coolant filter. If ford would have put one on from the beginning it would have helped several known problems.
My 6.0 started blowing out coolant last year when towing through the Smokies. It turned out to be a blown head gasket caused by the Torque to Yield (TTY) head bolts. The truck has been in the shop for the last month getting new head gaskets and ARP head studs, EGR cooler delete, new oil cooler and a few other things. The estimate for all this is $6800 and it was supposed to take a week.
I decided to get this work done rather than buy a new truck because I really like my truck. Except for the engine problem and a brake issue, the truck has been a great tow vehicle.
