superduty12v
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Certain 6.0 can be a ROYAL PITA, But others can be real good trucks.
For example.
My friend bought a brand new 03 6.0(the supposid worst year) he put 350k on the truck pulling a 2 car wedge trailer all over the east coast. All stock, no power upgrades at all
@150 a set of injectors
@250 a set of injectors
@300 a cat and trans rebuild
He traded that truck in on a 06-or 07 6.0 last year. The "new truck had just under 100k and a clean oasis report. AGAIN, no power adders
@100k head gaskets
@105k head gaskets AGAIN
@110k HEAD GASKETS AGAIN. But this time it got ARP head studs, Liberator EGR delete and the oil cooler upgrade.
Now the truck had 200k and no more issues.
So take a 6.0 for what it is. RAW power that was pushed into production , with limited time to work the bugs out, there is reason ford sued international over this engine and also why international no longer makes for diesel engines, it is called the 6.0. Dont get me wrong, a 6.0 with upgrades is basicly bulletproof, but you will pay to make it that way.
As for the 6.8. unless it is the 05 or newer, they are quite doggy, but a 05-2010 is 365hp
yeah im gonna see whats going on with the 7.3 up there. there are 2 of them. same everything just ones an 02 xl and other one is an 01 xlt. and brad your always posting in my threads, and everytime its something different im looking to do with my truck