Ford 6.7L Powerstroke V8 Diesel

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

FishOnOne wrote:

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

FishOnOne wrote:

patriotgrunt wrote:
I've had no issues from my '15. Lots of power and it pulls my fifth wheel effortlessly. It's also very easy to maintain with how they locate all the filters. I changed both fuel filters and the air filter in 10-15 minutes not too long ago. I'd buy again in a second if I had to.

I just changed my oil and oil filter this afternoon on my Power Stroke. Took all of 20 minutes tops. Nice thing is there's no crazy gimmicks to cap the oil filter, no saran wrap, no removing the air filter tubing non sense. Just a simple unscrew oil filter and drop it into the oil pan like God intended. :B

That's great to hear that Ford made things so easy!!

I heard that since the 6.Oh and 6.4 problem Ford started to make changing engines much easier for the mechanic for the 6.7. Like turbo's that are held onto the engine with 1/4 turn fasteners so when they blow the turbo's are easy to R&R.

The valve covers and heads now come with Dzus fasteners so when the valve heads start falling off of the stems they are not too bad to change out.


The radiators now come with quick disconnects on the hoses so when the radiator takes a dump you can change it on the road. and your vacation is saved.

The glow plugs that fall off into the cylinder are pretty easy to replace, but it will take out the entire engine.

Anyway it's good to see Ford is making things easier for the mechanics and homeowners like you Fish. :B

You forgot another failure... Link

Oooppps wrong brand.... :B


You forgot they're also making things easier for service managers too... Now they can manage less diesel mechanics.

Now find me 10, 15 or 20 more and you will have something Troy. Or even several posts of runaway Dmax engines. Not going to happen.


The bottom line is this OP.

There are problems with certain engines. Like take for instance the LB7 GM diesel. They WILL have injector failures. Why? Because of the junk Bosch injectors. They are junk! And expensive to replace in this engine. This engine will have this failure because it was a design flaw. If the injectors were not replaced in this engine I would not recommend you buy one used if it had factory injectors in it. Too much of a risk.

The 6.7 Ford from 2011 to 2014 had tons of turbo problems. The turbo WILL fail just like the LB7 injectors did. Why? Because the turbo was a duel wheel design that was JUNK! Ford saw the error of their ways and fixed the turbo with a single wheel design. That ended that problem for ever.

2011 through 2014 also had junk CP4 pumps. This is not only a Ford problem GM put the same JUNK pump on their engines. The thing was GM warranteed their pumps for the most part and Ford did not. This is well documented. Ram did not worry about this because they used the older design pump that was pretty bullet proof.

Along with the other problems I listed above they had bearing problems also. Ford decided to not put bearing retention tangs on the main bearing. Really DUMB move. Although nothing like the amount of turbo failures, they still had a few lower end bearing failures.

People that say they have x amount of miles on Y brand mean nothing. I have over 140,000 miles on a 5.7 diesel with 0 problems. That means nothing because the engines are JUNK plain and simple.

Don't listen to the fan boys on here. Go on any Ford forum and look for failure trends. This will mean more than ANYBODY on here including myself.

Turtle,
I speak/communicate with several Ford and cummins diesel techs with one being my cousin. One has even stated he hardly works on the 6.7 PSD (RIP Dieseltechron). Even my current truck at 4 years and 93k miles it has yet to see a wrench except for the lug nuts... Just remember that the 6.7 Power Stroke has 75% of the diesel engine market and the Duramax has ~10% so the internet chatter is not statistically the same. But in the spirit of your request I'm posing a link to a Duramax failure close to home. I will say my parents still have their 05 Duramax and it's been a good truck, but it's no where near the towing performance as my Power Stroke.
Best Regards,
Fish :B

Duramax Headgasket Failure