Nov-18-2014 04:05 PM
Dec-06-2014 05:07 PM
Aka the breeze wrote:ksss wrote:Richard_999 wrote:
Someone asked , a few posts back ..
" whatever happened to the OP..?
Well .. that is ME ...and I am still here, reading every single comment and learning with each one.
It is quite hard to form a SOLID conclusion to my original question, with so much (sometimes) conflicting info ... but , so far , my conclusion seems to be that the 6.0 "CAN" be OK , but the odds are against it !
I have put mine up for sale, and expect to suffer a loss from the experience. I took it on a 250 mile trip a few days ago , one way , and will go back, in two days.
It has performed very well , so far , but it seems that using it as a tow vehicle for a 14,000 lb FW , is RISKY .. at best.
If I was driving it around town, I feel I would keep it, but that is not why I bought it.
I really do thank all of you that have put such useful info here, and I certainly feel I have received an education from it.
Thanks To All .... Richard
That is the safest decision, even if it costs you some money right now. It is better than paying to fix or bulletproof the 6.0, which is money that will never come back to you. Dump it and move on, there are plenty of much better options without near the drama that the 6.0 brings.
The evil that plagues the 6.0 is not only attributed to tuners, and not using Motorcraft oil filters, it is primarily from ****ty engineering, plain and simple. IH and Ford would not have spent as much money as they did on warranty work and lawyers if it was as simple as that. Anyone that doubts that needs to read the court documents, it is all there, and after reading it and you still defend and want to own a 6.0, you deserve what you get.
Safest decision ??? REALLY ??? There are tens of thousands 6.0's on the road with no issues... IF maintained properly AND NOT CHIPPED , they are a decent motor.. IF I were to believe everything I read here , I would give up towing and live in a plastic bubble.. Because everything will blow up...crash.. or fall apart rolling down the road... To the OP... ONLY you can figure if the truck has been maintained... do some digging.. I would do that before loosing a bundle.. Good Luck
Dec-06-2014 02:30 PM
Dec-04-2014 06:44 AM
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Dec-03-2014 03:29 AM
ksss wrote:Richard_999 wrote:
Someone asked , a few posts back ..
" whatever happened to the OP..?
Well .. that is ME ...and I am still here, reading every single comment and learning with each one.
It is quite hard to form a SOLID conclusion to my original question, with so much (sometimes) conflicting info ... but , so far , my conclusion seems to be that the 6.0 "CAN" be OK , but the odds are against it !
I have put mine up for sale, and expect to suffer a loss from the experience. I took it on a 250 mile trip a few days ago , one way , and will go back, in two days.
It has performed very well , so far , but it seems that using it as a tow vehicle for a 14,000 lb FW , is RISKY .. at best.
If I was driving it around town, I feel I would keep it, but that is not why I bought it.
I really do thank all of you that have put such useful info here, and I certainly feel I have received an education from it.
Thanks To All .... Richard
That is the safest decision, even if it costs you some money right now. It is better than paying to fix or bulletproof the 6.0, which is money that will never come back to you. Dump it and move on, there are plenty of much better options without near the drama that the 6.0 brings.
The evil that plagues the 6.0 is not only attributed to tuners, and not using Motorcraft oil filters, it is primarily from ****ty engineering, plain and simple. IH and Ford would not have spent as much money as they did on warranty work and lawyers if it was as simple as that. Anyone that doubts that needs to read the court documents, it is all there, and after reading it and you still defend and want to own a 6.0, you deserve what you get.
Dec-02-2014 06:12 PM
Bedlam wrote:
Yes, he did run a tuner according to this post:
https://www.rv.net/forum/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/28067988/gotomsg/28068011.cfm#28068011
Dec-02-2014 04:30 PM
Richard_999 wrote:
Someone asked , a few posts back ..
" whatever happened to the OP..?
Well .. that is ME ...and I am still here, reading every single comment and learning with each one.
It is quite hard to form a SOLID conclusion to my original question, with so much (sometimes) conflicting info ... but , so far , my conclusion seems to be that the 6.0 "CAN" be OK , but the odds are against it !
I have put mine up for sale, and expect to suffer a loss from the experience. I took it on a 250 mile trip a few days ago , one way , and will go back, in two days.
It has performed very well , so far , but it seems that using it as a tow vehicle for a 14,000 lb FW , is RISKY .. at best.
If I was driving it around town, I feel I would keep it, but that is not why I bought it.
I really do thank all of you that have put such useful info here, and I certainly feel I have received an education from it.
Thanks To All .... Richard
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