Recommend next diesel?
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Recommend next diesel?
I had an F-250 '04 Lariat Extneded cab with a 6.0L and loved it. I need to get another. Will stay with the diesel but any year and size recommendations? I know the F-250's reecently had poor fuel milage but understand they were corrected. Don't think I'll be able to afford a new one but when did the "GREEN" diesels come out? Just last year or the past couple years?
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If you are going to stay with Ford and want to keep the price down, get a 06 or 07. Plan on doing the usual head gaskets, oil cooler, EGR cooler. You should factor that into the price right off the bat. Check oasis and have your scan gauge in your pocket when looking.
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If the price is right, you can go for 2003.
e.g. a 2003 / 04 that is got tuners, empty degas, signs of coolant puke, etc.
I would buy it building in the price of a reman long block, new cooling system, etc.
$15,000 pays for a lot of fixes.
e.g. a 2003 / 04 that is got tuners, empty degas, signs of coolant puke, etc.
I would buy it building in the price of a reman long block, new cooling system, etc.
$15,000 pays for a lot of fixes.
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I had an F-250 '04 Lariat Extneded cab with a 6.0L and loved it. I need to get another. Will stay with the diesel but any year and size recommendations? I know the F-250's reecently had poor fuel milage but understand they were corrected. Don't think I'll be able to afford a new one but when did the "GREEN" diesels come out? Just last year or the past couple years?
. Diesel has always been green here in Tx.
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I was reffereing to the fuel re-burner add to the engines. I think it was in 09 they came out and those that bought them saw greatly decreased fuel milage and weren't happy.
AGE- scan tool is good idea!.
Thanks for the info 06-07. Gotta wait for the final from the insurance to see what I will be able to afford. Probably next week.
AGE- scan tool is good idea!.
Thanks for the info 06-07. Gotta wait for the final from the insurance to see what I will be able to afford. Probably next week.
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I agree with ljutic 100%. The 6.0 is simpler and cheaper to work on than the 6.4 and the 6.4 is just starting to show some ugly heads.
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No matter how you cut it, there were somewhere like 1 million 6.0s made.. that is a lot of cores, a lot of cheap parts out there.
Not so for the 6.4.
Not so for the 6.4.
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There is nothing cheap on any of the new diesels.
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Ford DPF system was only 2008-2010 the 2011 does not use DPF it uses a urea injection which has heaters in the urea tank to keep it from freezing which is around 10 deg. f. So besides worrying about quality diesel fuel you have something else to tend to once the urea tank gets low. I think it's time for the EPA be dissolved.
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The 2011 have both a DOC (Diesel Oxidation Catalyst) and a DPF.
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Is your 6.7 like a Mercedes blue tech where you only get 20 starts when your out of urea, and the engine will not start until the urea is refilled?