Seem like a lot of issues?
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Why? Sheesh, let me explain.
An engine is an engine; gas or diesel. A truck is a truck; it still moves and hauls.
An engine is an engine; gas or diesel. A truck is a truck; it still moves and hauls.
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Remind me again... the alternator on your V-6 has what to do with the headgaskets on 6.0 again?
Remind me again... the alternator on your V-6 has what to do with the headgaskets on 6.0 again?
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I've been thinking the head on my truck got warped somehow and caused the alternator to grenade and its still not right.
Besides, my v6 had headgasket issues too. And is now having valve cover gasket issues too.
Never ends...
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The head can be warped if you are having gasket issues. Don't take much on a diesel.
I've been thinking the head on my truck got warped somehow and caused the alternator to grenade and its still not right.
Besides, my v6 had headgasket issues too. And is now having valve cover gasket issues too.
Never ends...
I've been thinking the head on my truck got warped somehow and caused the alternator to grenade and its still not right.
Besides, my v6 had headgasket issues too. And is now having valve cover gasket issues too.
Never ends...
MERRY CHRISTMAS I SAY!!
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Which is fine with me, I just want the truck working right.
Have a Merry Christmas too.
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...the truck over heated on me. it cooled off very quick so I thought maybe it was a fluke. When I got to St, Georges Utah and the truck was over heating just going up and on ramp, I went to the ford dealer ship. The replace the cracked coolant tank and flushed the entire system. Continue on the trip, truck is overheating almost every hill. Swing by another dealership, they replace the Oil Cool, continue on trip, truck still overheating all the time. Drive very gently until I get home and take it in for the issue. Dealership replaces the Oil Cool again, 2 months later (and not more then 500 miles) truck blows the EGR system, white fog's the freeway (o man that was a riot). Truck goes to Ford replace EGR system and some fuel injectors for hard start issue. Truck still over heating and now leaking oil. Ford can't get it to do it when they have it, Its now mid 2009 and the truck is still intermittently overheating....
So my question is does this seem like a lot of crap to go wrong on a Truck that just broke the 50K mark, I would expect to see 300k out of this thing but I am not feeling like I will now days, anyone?
Sounds to me like your head gasket was blown the first time you took it to the dealer. Seems like they always try to replace the Egr and oil cooler first just see if that might fix it...
if you want to keep your 6.0 running for a while I would recomend to get yourself a set of gauges to monitor your egts on your truck...this will help prevent you from blowing a head gasket..and i suggest running additives (such as stanadyne) it will really help with the injector issues.. oh and i always add a bottle of prolong engine treatment in my 03 6.0. seems to help on the cold start, just dont put lucas oil additives in it...this stuff has oil thicking properties in it..it will make it harder to start.
Hope this helps you...good luck..
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If you want 300k
get ready to fork over some cash. mines in its 3rd egr cooler, 3rd turbo, 2nd oil pump, 3 a/c controller been stranded on the road 3 times. whats worse, I bought a new ford. some people never learn
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blame international/navistar...its their engine not Fords...FoMoCo hates the 6.0 and 6.4 just as much as the people who own them do.
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WRONG!!!! Navistar runs their own version of the 6.0L and they didn't have near the problems Ford did. The reason that they were such a bomb in the F series trucks is that Ford insisted on tweaking all kinds of stuff on the engine. If Ford had just left the thing alone they wouldn't have had this blow up in their faces. The 6.0L flop is just as much Fords fault as it was Navistars.
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WRONG!!!! Navistar runs their own version of the 6.0L and they didn't have near the problems Ford did. The reason that they were such a bomb in the F series trucks is that Ford insisted on tweaking all kinds of stuff on the engine. If Ford had just left the thing alone they wouldn't have had this blow up in their faces. The 6.0L flop is just as much Fords fault as it was Navistars.
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while their is SOME truth to this. Navistar was well informed of Ford plans with the VT365 before Ford got their hands on it. Bottom line is Navistar threw Ford this engine without testing it at the levels Ford needed it. Do you really think International thought they were going to run the 6.0 at a lower power level then the 7.3? The 6.4 is also running much higher horsepower then the international version which International is aware of..notice the 2mm larger headbolts on the 6.4
Well Navistar did know, at least after it was in production at Ford what was going on, but the fact remains that Ford was the one who ultimately made the decision to run the engine at a higher power level than it was really designed for. It was within the engine limits, however the engine was never designed to run at that power level all the time, hence the durability problems. Ford is really just asking for way more out of these engines than what Navistar designed them to run at. They got their performance at the cost of durability. Ford really needed to tell Navistar that they needed a higher displacement engine so they could get their performance and maintain the durability.
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We've had nothing but trouble out of our 7.3 too, so don't feel like its a 6.0 only club. 7.3's eat transmissions, batteries, airfilters, fuel filters, oil coolers, etc. like candy.
The V10's eat PCV elbows, battery cable ends, headlights (for some reason). They also ruin IAC valves if you try to run an aftermarket air filter. (napa, K&N etc.)
The V10's eat PCV elbows, battery cable ends, headlights (for some reason). They also ruin IAC valves if you try to run an aftermarket air filter. (napa, K&N etc.)
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The 7.3L we have on the farm out here hasn't really gave us any issues - oh well, nothing is perfect
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