2003-2004 6.0 Ford Diesels

[Woodchuck]

I knew I'd probably crossed a line there!

[2MANY]

Chipping a 6.0L turns it into a towing machine or a sports car that eats 5.0L Mustangs for diner.

Smoked horse meat is yummy.

[jackelope]

Good luck with your 6.0  fords.

Thanks but don’t need any luck! All about maintenance just like with any other diesel

All I can say is sell it JWEBB!  At 150k your time of good fortune is about complete buddy..  Not an opinion here but a fact.  Check out a Ford Diesel forum if ya have any questions about your future 6.0.  Auto trans?  Uh oh its time.  Turbo is tired now, uh oh.  Injectors, tubes and Inj pump, oh oh.  Might as well fix what Ford didn't do while your spending the cash.  Like head bolts that can handle the HP that Navstar/international did NOT DESIGN their engine to handle. Oh don't forget to egr delete so the toilet doesn't plug up and destroy itself!  Sorry but this is for your benefit not a loyalty thing.  I think the Superduty is a superior truck overall, minus the engine of course.

6+ years here and countless trucks... I've done head gaskets on 6.0's a few times on my team. Couldn't tell you how many 6.0's I've put through the shop. Hundreds for sure.... Anyone I've ever talked to who are in the industry say if you don't boost a 6.0 more than what it's supposed to be, head studs are not needed.
Fairly sure I've never replaced a transmission in one. I might have replaced a couple. Nothing for me to think is a major concern.

[DRobnsn]

Chipping a 6.0L turns it into a towing machine or a sports car that eats 5.0L Mustangs for diner.

Smoked horse meat is yummy.

So that's how you get a 6.0 to pull something besides itself, I've always wondered...

J/K

[Mudman]

Jackelope don't you work at a Dealership though?  After warranty you probably don't see many older rigs correct?  Or am I mistaken?

[Mudman]

Here are the other people with great luck!!!  https://www.powerstroke.org/forum/6-0l-problems-forum/

[Caseyd]

Jackelope don't you work at a Dealership though?  After warranty you probably don't see many older rigs correct?  Or am I mistaken?

Lots of fleets use dealership. I’d guess majority of their work is companies

[Mudman]

Dunno but don't many lease and turn after aged?  Also many commercial 6.0 are detuned from regular consumer trucks right?  Like the vans?

[jackelope]

Jackelope don't you work at a Dealership though?  After warranty you probably don't see many older rigs correct?  Or am I mistaken?

I work at a fairly good sized Ford dealer. We usually write 40-60 vehicles a day. I don't think half is accurate but with the light rail project going here, I bet 25% of the vehicles we write are construction company and other fleet vehicles. We're not seeing a lot of 6.0's anymore, but I've been here for going on 7 years, so I've written a crap ton of 6.0 trucks. I just counted. I have 3 6.0L trucks in the shop right now. The average miles per vehicle month to date for me is 78,355 miles. I've written 74 repair orders this month without warranty work on them and 35 tickets that contained a warranty repair. This has been slow so far due to snowpocalypse 2019. So my point in all that is we do mostly non-warranty work.
The whole service dept has written 215 customer pay tickets and 102 repair orders with warranty work on them.

 

[jackelope]

Dunno but don't many lease and turn after aged?  Also many commercial 6.0 are detuned from regular consumer trucks right?  Like the vans?

A couple of my construction companies age out their vehicles at 100k. Others are still running at 200k miles. Some age out on time, some on miles, some on condition. I'm not aware of any detuning.

PS we still do EGR coolers in 6.4's and 6.7's now and then. You don't have to lift the cab to do either 6.7 egr cooler.

[Mudman]

The E series ford 6.0 is a 235HP engine.  Like it was designed to be.  Basically Ford was selling a hopped up version which contributed to many of its issues I suspect.

[Harbor_hunter]

Boy I started quite the discussion    Didn't really expect that!

[DRobnsn]

Boy I started quite the discussion    Didn't really expect that!

  Don't worry, happens every year. Multiple times in a year if you include all the brands.

[Mudman]

 

[colersu22]

I had an 04 f350 with the 6.0 that I sold with just under 200k and I bought it with just over 100k.  I had an injector go bad and replaced them all with dynamite diesel 100hp sticks.  I also had the egr cooler get clogged and I did the bulletproof delete kit.  Right before I sold it I had the HPOP go out and replaced it with a billet HPOP.  Besides the things that went bad I had installed an air intake, fass fuel kit, bigger turbo, 58v ficm, head studs, head gasket, sct tuner with custom tunes and had a straight pipe exhaust with a 6” single stack out of the bed.  Truck was also lifted 6” on 35’s and I averaged about 22 mpg in the city and 26 when I drove over east.  I honestly miss the truck and regret selling it and have thought about picking up another one but would want one that someone else put the money into it first.