KD4UPL wrote:
covered wagon wrote:
BB_TX wrote:
There have been no significant failures noted on the forums of 2015 and newer Fords or Rams. Or GM for that matter. If you find one of any well maintained, low mileage, and in good condition that fits your butt and pleases your eyes, then I think you could rest easy about buying it.
Best not to buy it unless it has new injectors. At 3-5 thousand bucks for a set they only good for 100 k miles because on a newer common rail fuel system your 10 times more likely to ruin an engine if one goes out and they aren't reliable past about 100k miles.
Are you serious? You must be thinking about the old 2001 - 2004.5 Duramax LB7. The factory original injectors in my '05 Chevy Duramax have 248,000 miles and no hint of a problem. I've never heard anyone say modern fuel injectors are only good for 100,000 miles.
Not at all. I'm talking about the newer electronic injectors that have a constant high pressure against them with an electronic solenoid to control time of injection and having high pressure on both sides of the solenoid so they can open and close. When they fail they will wash a piston sure as the sun comes up. As much as ten times more expensive than the mechanical injectors, You should not trust them past a hundred thousand because of much greater likelihood of washing a piston with a common rail constant pressure flow running thru a failed injector.
