FORD 2006 F-550 Truck Upgrade
VIDEO: FORD 2006 F-550 Truck Upgrade I'm making a big Truck Upgrade from my 2000 FORD F-250 with all the suspension, engine, brakes, tires, electrical, and other improvements , to an awesome 2006 FO...
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Congratulations on the new rig.
Have to ask what attracted you to the literally worst engine built for light duty trucks in the last 20 years?
Especially given your recent engine issues….
not the worst by far, as long as they are left stock. problem came in when people hopped them up and didn't do other things like stud kits and such. I would still take a 6L over any 12V or 24V dodge 😉
The weakest points with both engines is the oil cooler which can be addressed by a coolant filter so the cooler never cloggs, or an external oil cooler which works better anyway, and adds 2 more quarts oil to the system. The other major fix is an improved egr cooler that's less likely to clog, and also not crack and leak coolant into the exhaust, or exhaust into the coolant. There are other repairs beyond that but these are the main two.
We really need a roll eyes, head bonk, type emoji for responses like this.
But I gotta say, u Frod fans sure are a loyal bunch. OMG. Defending a 6.0no is like idk, can’t describe it.
Sure some ran/run without lifting the heads, blowing the EGR or oil cooler etc. But even those are still orders of magnitude more finicky than the competitors.
And to the “I know of 3 of them running strong to this day….” comments, I can only think back to oilfield work up on the Slope when companies were trying to baby along their pre 07 diesels due to the problems with emissions and idling extended periods. So one of our partners had a fleet of “old” 6.0s and LB7-LBZ GMs. Because Dodge didn’t make a crew cab and their transmissions sucked.
Roughly equal numbers of both brands.
On one side of the shop there were 2 or 3 engines lined up. Like 1 new and 2 blown. Those were the Dmaxes. On the other side there was like 20-30 6.0 Flowerjokes lined up. Like 20 blown and 10 new for the next 10 Fords that ate themsleves.
No other explanation needed…..I do kind of like the name PowerJoke. You can continue focusing on the negative pointing all the dead engines you saw, but I will bet you, if each of those engines top ends were rebuilt with updated Bulletproof parts, they would all be reliable 500000 mile engines going forward. I will guarantee you, none of them had a failed bottom end rotating mass unless it was due to failure of another part like the oil cooler.
