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Originally Posted by GrampyJim
It would be interesting to see what you based that assumption on....
And I am sure you would be surprised to notice how many people on DTS have taken notice of that comment
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You all have valid points guessing or not Lol... I can tell you first hand since I am a tech at a International dealership.The only common issues With the Ford version early on in this engines Inception were sticking turbos,STC fittings and Injector stiction issues.Headgasket failures are very much unheard of in a VT-365.I have only seen one case and the cause was from severely overheating the engine and running it with almost No coolant from a blown radiator hose.International has a thing that they call a Uptime proceedure.This is where they will have us do selected things if the tk or bus in question is eligable for a reflash.On the VT series we did Oil coolers,STC fittings (The First revison of this issue got the support bracket,any repeat failures to this date get the strait fitting and if necessary get the branch tube replaced.Plus we Installed coolant filters with a Oil cooler replacement.EGR coolers seem to be holding up well I have done a few but they have been high milage tks pushing the 6 digit range.Well maintained tks for example UPS vans that we see are over 150,000 before they have experieced any Injector failures.IMO In the Ford application with there power rateing its on the very edge of reliability and it shows in the comparison of problems between the two applications.I share alot of info with Ford Dealer techs and it is kinda supriseing compareing the engines issues between Ford and International.It doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out the main reason for Fords Higher rate of problems.IMO ....Too much power for the engines design.The VT 365 in a normal fleet or school bus application HP rateing is 250 HP .They run them matted to the floor all day without constant headgasket problems. To those who chip this engine and crank it up some more.You are takeing a pretty Big risk and Inviteing trouble. As long as you are prepared to deal with it I guess it shouldnt matter to the Individual
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07,F-250 4X4 6.0 Torqshift, Lariat, Highline package, S/C LWB.
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