I am picking up a 6.0 out of a 2004 F550 for $600 this Saturday. I wasn't looking for it when I found it but I figured $600 was a heck of a deal and couldn't turn away. The guy said he pulled it out when it lost oil pressure and quit running. It's all there, including the accesories and 4 new injectors that were installed not long ago.
I'm thinking I will take the time to tear it down have everything baked, painted, checked, decked, ported, polished, and honed. I want to build this thing to push some heavy horses. This will be a side project to my other side projects and will likely be done over the span of years and not weeks. It will be the spare that gets dropped in if my 6.0 ever dies.

Any suggestions for internal upgrades or modifications?

 

wow good deal a while back we scrapped out 2 e450 transit vans with 6.0s and we sold the injectors on ebay for over a hundred bucks a peice dont even know if they were good or not and the buyers didnt either. just the injectors brought more money than what we paid for the vans! plus we still got both turbos and the heads among other stuff

 

Lucky dog! I would have bought that in a heartbeat.

Does it come with PCM/FICM/turbo?

 

Been looking at the pic the guy had posted and I don't see the turbo or FICM on it, but the harness is there along with the PCM. Who knows though, I might be pleasantly surprised when I pick it up. Just looking at what was there I knew it was worth it.

 

wow

There is a guy on PSN right now throwing a 6.0 into a Fox body for drag racing...maybe a nice 90's F-150 with a built 6.0? That would be a wicked fun truck

 

I have been thinking about doing the same thing lately Great idea this should be a fun project. Cant wait to hear the cause of the lost oil pressure I just got done dealing with no lpo in my truck. Funny it was just a stuck oil pressure regulator.

 

I drove out to Indiana on Saturday and picked it up, I still think I got one heck of a deal. No rods hanging out the side of the block, all 8 injectors are still in it. Along with it I got a bunch of extra parts to include metal cold side CAC tube and all new boots.
The only downside for me is it came out of an early 04 F550 rollback so it has the early intake manifold, turbo pedestal and ICP mount. They tapped the top of the oil cooler housing and had a fitting with a length of hydraulic hose threaded into it. I saw it and asked what kind of setup they had and one of the guys told me that that they tapped it to test the oil pressure and were unable to get any oil pressure at the top of the housing which tells me the LPOP is out of it. He said they had a spare on the floor so they dropped it in instead of tearing this one down.
I don't think the guys realized what they could have gotten out of it, the owner said that he just bought the buisiness a month before and was trying to get everything cleaned up. He thought that all he could get was about $600 for a core. I told him that he could have gotten $100 each for the injectors alone, but he said he just wanted it out of there.
You don't realize how much motor is under that hood untill you have it sitting out of the truck on the garage floor.

 

Wow could be as simple as an oil regulator stuck open like mine was. Hope it is that would be a blessing for you. Kick the next $600 core motor my way would ya

 

Alright I started cleaning up the motor and pulling the harness off and so on when I looked down inside of the oil filter housing. Notice something missing???



The little black plastic button that is depressed when the filter is in it is gone.
I know that when some aftermarket oil filters and caps are used that this button will not depress and stop oil from draining to the pan and you can end up have low or no oil pressure on the gauge.
So what happens when the button is missing entirely? Will it allow enough oil to run to the pan and not make it to the HPOP sump that it will not run? IIRC the LPOP flows at 18 GPM, and it only take like 7 PSI to trip the dummy switch to register on the gauge. I don't know if it get enough oil to run if it's missing that button. If I hook a 12 volt source up to the starter, turn it over and it pumps oil into the housing I think I'll call this guy and tell him he should fire his mechanic.

 

Wow that would be great if that's all it was

 

You know in my van set-up, since there is no filter at the housing , but remote on the frame in stock form, IIRC I don't have the black button, it's wide open.