I went to the dealer yesterday and picked up my 08 Lariet with the new engine.I ask ford to replace the truck because the service dept. has had it more than me.They have taken the truck apart twice.I must say though the service teck has done a good job.They have had the truck for 28 days.I like the 08 Lariet but still wish ford would do the right thing and replace the truck.I told them I have paid $40,000+ for a remanufactured truck not a new one.I do not think I am being unreasonable for a 24 year customer. they however do.With all that said,I think the 08 superduty is the most comfortable,strongest truck on the market.

 

wtf happened?..............

Did you fry a 6.4 already?

 

As much as i love Ford the dealers can be a real SOB! But im sure there are alot of good salesman that take care of their customer. not like that here in Detroit. and for really struggling, they don't seem to even wanna strike a deal up. kinda the - take it or leave it approach. goodluck with ur truck!

 

the truck developed a knock at about 2600 miles,they thought it might be injectors but turned out to be a bigger problem.They changed injectors but the knock was still there,they changed the crank pully and this did not help so they change the engine

 

to be honest i have heard of more major problems with the 6.4 than i did with the 6.0. im not talking nag problems but major failures needing replacement engines.


may be telling us something.

 

I would think that the 6.4 will just have to have bugs worked out, like the 6.0 did in the early years.
But with major, engine replacement type issues, we may look back at the 6.0 as the good old days (post debugged days of course), as was done with the 7.3 from the 6.0.
I hope you're mistaken... I was optimistic that the 6.4 would be my next power plant in my final tow vehicle purchase, for my future retirement travels.

It could be that Ford pulled this engines out only to diagnos what exactly is causing the sound that the consumer is complaining about, not so much that there is necessarily anything seriously wrong with it. It would be easier to do the necessary research on a work bench... At least I hope that's all it is.

 

it was probably just cheaper for ford totake out the engine, fix it when they had time, put a new one in, and put the old one in the next truck with a problem like this after it's fixed....

 

ya, an engine would cost us 10K. prolly costs ford like 200 bucks.

 

the service manager did say he thought that it could be a crank problem and they did not know if it was a rod bearing or a main.I am sure they wanted to see exactly what was going on so the pulled the engine

 

Tis best to ID any potential probs now, before getting blind sided later. If there is a weak link, I'm sure Ford will do the right thing and rectify it. They always have, as long as some knucklehead didn't create their own problems buy loading some kind of 15,000 hp tuner into the works. Then they seem to deny warranty. Rightfully so I might add.
If there are possible failures down the road on legitimate runners, rest assured, Ford wants to know about that as soon as possible. I'm sure they have that engine torn down right now, and are trying to determine this currently.
Just because they pulled and kept the engine doesn't mean there is a chronic problem. Just that they want to check things out to make sure that there isn't, IMO.

 

the service manager did say he had only heard of three other engine replacements besides mine,two that had overheated for some reason or another and one more that had also developed a knock