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Originally Posted by dikkstarr
To make this engine not break down on a regular basis you need to do as these guys stated, but its illegal and costly. Any tampering with the egr will be illegal, do you want to have a truck with an emission violation?
Unfortunately, that IS the ONLY way to save these engines from absolute failure and not cost you thousands of dollars to fix. Among other things that are prone to regular failure.
Yeah its a cool truck.
If I could do it again I would never have bought this truck with a 6.0l in it, I would have been better off with a V10. Diesel isnt cheap anymore like it was in '04 and never will be again.
Get your wife an F150, trust me you will be better off in the long run.
The 6.0l is just too expensive to keep running.
Buy a truck you can just drive and not one you have to spend money on to make it drivable.
Just remember one thing, every 6.0l is a ticking time bomb that costs way too much money to fix anytime anything, no matter how small, breaks on it.
Thank you.
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Ticking time bomb? I dont think so. Ive seen plenty of 6.0's over the years that have been nothing but reliable. People like you are what gives this engine a bad name. Ive seen much more that have been good than i have bad. Usually the ones with problems are the people that dont give a crap and just run the wheels off of them with tuners. Even some of those still run like a top. Ive seen plenty of 6.0's with over 200k and no major problems. My buddy has a 06 with 130k and has had a bullydog on it since 30k. This truck has had the daylights kicked out of it, always on extreme mode, no maintanace done and maybe 6 oil changes done and the only problem he every had was stc fitting went bad at 50k. Sorry about your luck.
