The current mandated emissions on the new diesels are terrible. I've been researching on a new truck and I found that I would have a ton of issues if I went with a diesel. The new diesel 3/4 and 1 ton trucks need to be worked hard. Making short trips and not working them leads to issues.

 

True, buddy has spartan and his dealer said were cool until something big breaks that requires a ford rep to inspect and at that time hes on his own. I would suspect if you were to blow something big, you would be at the mercy of ford.

 

Not sure what issues besides loss of MPG your reffering too.

 

When I asked about how they feel about tuning, he pointed me to a tuned 6.4L truck in the dead line with a blown radiator and something else with the tractor weights still hanging on the front from sled pulling.

1600deg EGT's through both turbos and heads to do the regen will not let these motors last for longer than 10 years is my guess. I plan to keep my truck forever with it being a stick so I tuned it to keep the EGT's down.

Adrianspeeder

 

Yeah buddy has a spartan and the dang thing whistles like a freight train, and not in a good way.. A lot of guys come in here talking about tuningand such but what they dont tell you is the issues they have

 

I know of two 6.7 trucks in town the spit their turbos out the tail pipe one was tuned and the other was bone stock.

If you work a 6.0 or 6.4 and run them hotter to keep the soot burned out of the turbo/turbo's they will thrive and live along time as long as you don't get crazy. My 06 is sitting right now because of head gaskets and it made it to 176,000 miles with the last 20,000 running IDP's Extreme Street and Tow tune before the head bolts finally stretched. The harder you work or the hotter you run them the better they are and at least once a week I would get on my truck and push the EGT's to 1100* to burn the crap out from in town driving.

 

If you love the stereotypical diesel, "big loud, smelly, black smoke poofing" as nards calls it lol, stick with the 7.3L. You can't go wrong with the 7.3L. Best diesel motor built if you ask me. Everything after that was a downgrade.

 

get a cummins, they get over 20mpg easy

 

on the HWY, without a load, pre 2008 MAYBE

 

thats what the OP drives

 

I agree with str8t six...get the big straight six. I would not buy a new diesel...any of them because of the emissions and they are not built to the quality of the previous ones. The mechanic my dad takes his 18 wheeler to was complaining about them from the new pickups to the ups trucks and such. Personally, I see nothing wrong with the old big smelly loud diesels.

 

From what I have found reading here and other sites you want an ecoboost.

 

certainly not the 2012s... I test drove a 4x4 supercab and it could not achieve instant MPG over 14mpg, let along average MPG. Terrible.