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Originally Posted by rock_doctor
I wonder if that fact it was not regularly driven lead to the failure. I bet you will find a bad injector over fueled overheating the piston which then melted... As the liquid aluminum dropped into the oil pan started burning the oil. There are not many cases of this but a few where injectors went bad which did in turn melted a piston.
I meant to take pictures of the engine as it is pulled apart. I suspect in the end they will take care of it but since you are not in the US they likely will drag their feet on it. Major repairs generally take an Ok from Ford and International. Since they both are sharing warranty costs for the 6.0 it does slow down the paperwork...................and don't forget the oil was (3 year's old) quote,.............The engine let go in the South of France with 5800 miles total on the clock (before it had even reached the first service!)This on a 2006 model RV,now sometime's you will find a motorhome where the date of MFG of the RV is a year NEWER than the running gear the coach sit's on!!!!,the oil could be as much as (4 year's old) ,and he said it was driven 2000 mile's in the US before i would guess being put on a ship for the trip to England and then being driven 3800 more mile's on 3 or 4 year old oil ,could this be an oil break down related issue.
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Thanks for that-just checked -the oil was changed at 3000 miles as it wasnt getting much use.
Checked the manufactures plate, it was only made a few months before it was registered so its not old stock.
Still looking for contacts to a good lawyer. There must be a few over in the USA who have dealings over this problem in the past
