Hey guys, I sold my 7.3 and I'm looking at picking up a fully deleted 6.7. It's a 14 and it has 75,000 on it. Guy said he deleted it a couple weeks after he rolled it off the lot brand new. What do you guys think? Don't know much about the 6.7 and all that. Had a 7.3 for many years

Thanks a lot!

 

other than your engine and exhaust warranty being voided, you shouldn't have a problem. Keep in mind though, that you also have NO REAL IDEA how the truck was treated. Many people delete just to delete, but many people also delete to drag race, join tractor pull competitions, and do crazy things to see what they can do.

A major engine component failing could cost you upwards around $10-15k (or an insurance deductible)

also, if it was driven hard (crazy hard take-offs at redlights kinda-hard) then there will be other components that might need addressing. If the factory 400/800 isn't enough for someone as a brand new vehicle, think about why someone would want the extra power vs. keeping their warranty in tact. Some could say for MPGs, but the payoff doesn't exactly repay your ROI.

Just be very careful.

 

Well thanks. I'll try to get some answers outta the guy. Haven't met him or gone to look at it yet. Waiting for the weekend. Just never know how people treat stuff nowadays. Especially trying to get some truth out of them!

 

Buying a deleted truck wouldn't be a big issue for me, whose to say a guy doesn't beat on his stock truck everyday?

My trucks been deleted for over 3 years now, zero issues.

 

if you have a week or so to wait you could also take a oil sample and send to one of those oil sample company's ( black stone is one ) . that will tell you a lot, water in oil , fuel in oil and any metals ( and what part of the motor the metal is from ) , etc etc
cost about 20$ and takes about a week and you get a full report PDF to your email.

 

You should make sure he gives you all of the emission parts if you buy it, just in case you have to put it back to stock in the future.

 

its 3k if you have to buy a replacement system

 

What would be the reason for putting the old exhaust system back on?

 

What would be the reason for putting the old system back on??

 

in case you have to take it to a state inspection for tags.... or resale and the new buyer wants it

 

Oh ok gotcha. I'm young enough I'll hopefully keep her around for a long time

 

I hear ya, I kept my old system after removing, but I hope to never have to put it back on but they charge like 3k to buy another system from ford...

 

I deleted mine at 40k miles for reliability and engine health. If you are on here very much you will quickly see that most failures are emissions related. I had a radiator leak after deleted. Put back to stock, warranty honored, redeleted. 106000 relatively trouble free miles and it sounds much better deleted. As posted earlier, get some background info on vehicle use and an oil analysis is a definite.

 

Expensive. Well I'll have to see what happens this weekend and join the 6.7 family.

 

Well that's the way to do it! Ha.