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Originally Posted by BIGBEN2004
I say stick with your perfectly good truck for now and save a ton of cash doing so. I wouldn't buy a new 6.4 unless the current truck you
are driving was totaled in a wreck and you had no other choice. I would wait until after 2010 and see what happens with fords new
engine being created now. The 6.4 will soon be discontinued like the 6.0 so why jump now when most will be jumping again like they did
with the 7.3 and the 6.0 and the 6.4. Soon the 6.4 will be called a diesel sucking turd compared to the newer stuff coming out. That is
what always happens, and newer thing comes out and people swear it is the biggest baddest thing out their and then it is replaced by
a better thing and people jump ship and swear how much better and amazing the new thing is over the once called biggest baddest
thing that now is called a turd. Talk to any respected mechanic and they will tell you the 7.3 was and still is the best diesel engine
ford ever had.
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And the flip side is that you can end up perpetually waiting for "the" technology to arrive because it is always arriving on a sliding scale. In 2010 the reason to not buy will be that it is too new and nobody wants to be and "early adopter". In the interim, I would have been living with the smell and noise of the 7.3 for 3 more years.
I've only got 14K on my 6.4 but I've had zero issues. Within the first 15K on my 7.3 I had a water pump and front crankshaft seal replaced. I sometimes think the there is a gulf between the raves for the 7.3's and the reality.
