2001 Ford EX 7.3 1 owner Me

400k + and counting. Nothing leaking on the ground! Of course, there have been some leaks, but I fixed them. For example, Oil cooler has been rebuilt a couple of times that I remember. There have been other leaks over the years. I have them fixed!

Stock injectors. Stock motor. No chips or programmers ever. Very little towing and no real off roading other than some maintained dirt roads.

The truck runs better than new! Looks almost good as new.
Use additive most times. Mostly Power Service grey bottle. (I am in S Fl)

Extreme maintenance of every fluid. (with all the maintenance intervals recorded with dates and specifics.) Oil Rotella T6, Mobil 1 ATF in trans and power steering. Mobil 1 gear oil in diffs, and 4x4 transfer case. Synthetic brake fluid.
About 100 oil changes so far, all by me!

When truck was new I changed the oil at 1k and then 3k thereafter. Switched to 5k when I went Synthetic. (As far as I remember, dino oil was about $6 per gallon!)

For example: Oil has never gone past 5k per change. Ever. Trans fluid usually changed at 20k miles. Switched to 30k when trans builder told me I was wasting $.


When the truck was new, I used dino oil for a while, then went to T6.


Many wear parts replaced over the years.

Built trans at 188k (mechanical diode failure but decided on a full rebuild with everything except billet input and output shafts) Suncoast billet triple disk torque converter. (low stall) Stock valve body.

Did 6.0 trans cooler conversion at same time as newly built trans.

I have driven this Ex about 16 times around the world (at the equator) Almost all miles driven were in S Fl. Smooth roads and no salt it's entire life.

If I could do it all over again, I would have purchased 2 Excursions. Run one 25 years and then switched to the new Ex!

New truck had a sticker of about 52k. Purchased for 37k brand new!

Just returned from a 800 mile road trip. Puuuurfect!

Last note: My Ex has never seen the dealer! I have been lucky enough to have known Ford master techs who moonlight. So far 3 different techs as they age out!

Basic maintenance done by me in my driveway.

Too bad they never brought the Ex back into production!

 

I’m at 380,xxx on the 2000 and 150ish on the 2005, original owner of both.

 

572,476 on my 2001 Rudolph, bought him new

 

210k on my '02. Waiting until spring (I don't drive it in the winter) to have the transmission rebuilt, which showed very clear signs of being done for last summer.

 

The wife's Excursion has 258k on the clock. I have both our trucks currently torn apart for maintanence/upgrades. Neither have had the valve covers off and the Excursion is still on the original transmission. They are getting new stainless steel bellowed up pipes with heat wrap, 7 turn mod but prolly going 8, Riffraff 4+4 billet compressor wheel, high flow EBPV delete outlet with diy pedestal delete, Riffraff plenum insterts, glow plugs, injector shims with modified spacers to get the oil out, UVCH with 50 cent mod, CAC pipe heat wrap with new boots/clamps, AIH delete, AIS intake. My truck will get a few other things for the turbo and HPO lines.

 

Only 187k mi on mine

 

342,000 on my old Excursion's 7.3L and runs fine. I don't get on it much as turned up with Hypermax stuff but I did whomp some Jeep thing the other day when traffic light turned green. She actually did a holeshot belching black smoke turning those 35" tires. I just patted her on the dash and said "Good girl". This time of year she's plugged in so block stays nice and cozy warm.