[Texkenusmc]

I know were a 04 6.0 is with 80,000 miles. The truck 7s bone stock the owner is tired of throwing parts at it. It is a four door long bed 4x4 for $3000. It was running when he parked it last mounth now wont start. Clean truck but scares me. He might just part it out.

 

[Texkenusmc]

In the last two years I know he has put 10 grand into it. I fill like it is just a lemon. I have not seen it on the road for two mounths without breaking down in the last two years. He is letting it go cheap because he does not want to screw someone.

 

[Mcrafty1]

Since you asked, If someone was talented enough to get it to start and run long enough to get it up to temp, put a monitor on and and check the vitals and for stored codes it would be a lot easier to help you spend your money.... at least from my point of view. Without putting gauges on it I'd not consider it. At least for anything more than a parts truck.

 

[Ford06]

For that money I would risk it! If the bottom end is OK, which it probably is, you could get a decent truck cheap. I would pull an oil sample and send it to Blackstone labs before is bought it though. They have free test kits available online.

 

[NOSPARKPLUGZ]

Def worth 3k u just got to listen to what the 6oh is saying and give it her and she'll run fine trust me I have an 03 early build and it WAS a lemon but now I love it!


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[Itz John]

worth it in my opinion. lets say the worst if you even had to get a used motor and swap it. still worth it in my opinion.

 

[Texkenusmc]

Ok I get my scan tool in Saturday and will pull codes and try and get it going. I will also check oil with blackstone. I am getting a scan tool that capable of doing the job it is the same one the diesel mechanic I trust uses. Thanks for all the info. Even if I do get I am holding on to my trusty 7.3

 

[TKOPerformance]

For $3k its worth the risk IMO. Likely he's had people working on it that don't know what they are doing. When you hear about a guy spending that kind of money and the truck still isn't reliable it raises serious questions about the people performing the work. $5,500 should have bulletproofed the truck and made it extremely reliable.

 

[meanfarmer]

Hell yes love my 6.0!

 

[Mcrafty1]

Hell yes love my 6.0!

Hell yes love my 6.0 too....But I haven't spent $500.00 dollars on it in three years and it runs great. $10,000 and it still won't run? That's a lot of money to spend on mechanics that don't know what they're doing, How much damage could $10,000 buy for a 6.0 powerstroke? and how much will it cost to reverse it? Just sayin, But then again...some people love a challenge and don't mind spending their money doing it, I'm not in that camp. I'd rather pay a monthly payment and ride in rather than work on my investment. Either way I hope it all works out for you. If you don't mind wrenching there are a lot of good people that have a wealth of information to help you through it on here.

 

[stevedunham]

I would say No... My 2004 with early build 2003 6.0 is a POS, even after being bulletproofed last Spring... Since then it sh*t another Turbo (on my 3rd now), just developed an exhaust leak which turns out to be the Y-pipe, and I literally just walked in the house after replacing the Power Steering pump... If you enjoy wasting money over and over again on a truck that almost never runs well for long without requiring replacing parts, go for it... Just make sure you understand either you or someone else will be wrenching on the 6.0 almost constantly...

 

[TKOPerformance]

You're going to hear stories like that about every make and model. I'm not trying to gloss over what Steve is going through; everyone is going to make a recommendation based on their experience.

Here's mine: I bought my truck brand new in July of 2006. My factory batteries started to go bad around the two year mark. I waited a long time to change them, convinced it was something else. Shortly thereafter I started getting some bad running and a CEL. Pulled codes and took it to the dealership, FICM was bad, covered under warranty, and my fault through ignorance about the batteries. About 68k the trans started acting funny. Eventually got bad and threw a bunch of codes, took it to the dealership, and the trans was junk. Not covered under warranty because the warranty only covered the trans for 30k, but dealership is super reasonable and I get a Ford reman trans R&R'd for $3,300. In hindsight, I ran an Edge tuner on the truck starting at 12k, and Edge is now notorious for ruining trannys, so again, my fault, and you've got to pay to play. About 98k I though the OC went bad, turns out it probably really blew a HG then. I ran it until it hydrolocked on cranking one day at 122k. Heads came off, studs, bigger injectors, bigger turbo, etc, and no issues with 178k on it, and it now makes about double the factory HP and I'm thinking somewhere in the 900lbs/ft range of torque.

Nothing ever happened to the truck that wasn't my fault. Eliminate me from the equation and its been drop dead reliable. All things considered, the 6.0 is the best deal is a used Diesel truck, in no small part due to what I consider to be a greatly exaggerated bad reputation. I know guys who run Dodges and Chevies, and they've all had their problems too. If you could still buy a new 12V Cummins I'd have one, but I'm not going to deal with a weak kneed tranny and a truck that falls apart around a great engine that refuses to die. I'll take a pass on the DMax trucks too because $3,200 for a set of stock injectors is a bit rich for my blood. Maybe one day the 6.7 Fords will come down to Earth price wise, but they've got their flaws too. So for the forseeable future I'll continue to roll in my 6.0.