2020 IKE raw and unedited
The TFL guys just posted their raw and unedited version of all 3 trucks doing their IKE runs. VIDEO Ford seems to run higher temps for engine, oil, and trans. It also sounded like the cooling f...
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FishOnOne wrote:Cummins12V98 wrote:
FISH you are so fill of BarbraStreisand.
These 68rfe issues you are claiming are a result of people adding tuners just like the head gaskets you like to mention.
Not hardly... But yes a tuner will cause it to fail sooner than later.
That depends on the power level you have it at and whether or not it has trans tuning as well. Before my brother had his 2012 F350, he had a 2010 Ram 2500 Tradesman that he bought new. He tuned it within 10k miles with trans tuning that improved shifting over stock for longevity. He always left it on level one which is only about 40 hp over stock instead of the 175 hp of level 4. He wanted something with more bells and whistles so he sold to his best friend to buy the 2012 F350 Lariat. The friend he sold it to is a guide down in the Copano Bay/Rockport area and tows his 23 ft Haynie down there every weekend(@ 160 miles one way). He also leaves it level one and has never touched it. Last time we spoke with him he had over 325k miles on the truck that has been tuned since about 10k and the only thing he has had it in the shop for was the water pump recall.
My truck has been tuned since 20k living with 150+ hp tunes until I swapped out the trans for custom built one at 80k because I got a good deal on it and someone wanted my stock trans to put in a 2010 truck they were trading in.
As far as the head gasket issue Cummins was mentioning, that was happening with stock trucks as well when the 6.7L first came out. It was even happening in medium duty trucks for about a year until Cummins came out with a new fuel map tune to reprogram them with. It was mainly caused by timing spikes in conjunction with the quick spooling VGT(adding too much fuel and too much boost at the wrong time) would cause a lot of cylinder pressure which all of the big three had issues with when they first went to a VG turbo. After this update, head gasket issues became rare. The problem with the tuners is that they were using the base pre-update files for their programming and head gasket failures were still happening in these trucks until the programmers used the new update as their base file.
