Ford 6.0l

[LittleJoe]

Originally Posted by FFHarrison

Little Joe
How many miles are on your dodge. One just popped up on craigslist, its a 04 2500 4x4 w/ 248K miles(original owner). It is super clean, never towed. I know the motors are great but is the rest of the truck going to hang in there.

I know that I'm all over the place as far a a diesel just want to get into a good one for around 12k.

Thanks

My personal truck the 04 has only 200,000 miles (320,00km). It is a cream puff and has only 4000hrs. Have done front wheel brgs, Axle and d. shaft ujoints and ball joints, brakes.
It is last of pre-emission engines and does not even have a Cat. I am aiming for at least 500,000 with it. (our highest mileage 97 with 970,000 was retired through cash for clunkers program when we got the Denali. It was rusted badly and transmission was failing, but engine still ran like a clock)

You will not buy a 3rd gen in good condition for 12K . More in 2nd gen range.

We have a 96,98,01,03,04.5 DRW (2011 Denali DMax)4x4 QC/KC on road everyday in our Emergency Road Service business. Notice no 07.5-12 Rams or ANY Fords.
No Fords because long downtime is NOT and option,and I refuse to own a vehicle that requires cab removal to work on (regardless of make). The Dmax because we wanted to try to get some newer machinery and the 2011 onward is a huge improvement over earlier issues.
We will likely be getting a 13 Ram with DEF finally, later this year.

All of the other trucks have 300-400K miles on them. Lost an engine in 04.5 due to an injector, failed open and broke piston rings all in about 10 min on hwy.

The trucks have been pretty much normal maintenance except for the 04.5 / and we have rebuilt the transmission at approx 300K miles on all of them.
Truthfully, all kidding aside, we own the dodge to get the cummins , and they are the easiest to work around the engine. (ie chg waterpump in 45min...try that on a Dmax)

[LittleJoe]

In our experience with the CR engines in the Cummins, Injectors are on borrowed time at 6000Hrs. The number that actually fail open is quite low, but expensive in the aftermath.

EG: 40 hrs labour start to finish, remove engine, strip to bare block, send to machine shop, bore cyl .020 over, reassemble engine, with new pistons/rings/bearings/seals/injectors and reinstall. Our cost on parts etc not counting our labour was just under 8K.
Cost to do this same job on Dmax or 6.0-6.7 Ford would be pretty much double. One of the guys that works for us is a DMax GM certified diesel specialist before he came to work on the Class 8 stuff.

I will say , I have been impressed with the 2011, it has been trouble free except for a heater core (under warranty) and has 75K miles on it. I t is running about same mileage as Dodges, 12 winter, 14 summer, pulling 8000lbs always.

[FFHarrison]

I just bought a 2002 F350 DRW Lariat 4x4 w/ 7.3l and 163k miles for$11k. Quite a bit of overkill for my Passport but now I can tow whatever I want.

Thanks for everybody's input.

[DJ85]

Congrats you have chosen wisely. Happy trails and enjoy life as it comes at you with no regrets.

[Escs36]

Congrats on the 7.3. I own one and consider myself an expert! They are really good engines. They do not have the most power or get the best mileage. They are quite simple to work on and will run and run and always get the job done.

My personal opinion: 2005 ford Crew cab dully with a P7100 injected 5.9 cummins with twin turbos and a 5 speed Allison would be my dream truck!

[FFHarrison]

Ecsc, what kind of mileage are you getting? Also what mods have you done?