I have owned and loved a '95 F250 for the past 4 years... In December, it was totaled, while parked in the driveway during a snowstorm. I am heartbroken that I have to replace my old guy, but excited about getting a new truck.

I know exactly what I want - 250 or 350, diesel, 4x4, long bed... BUT - I don't know whether to go a bit older and get the '08 6.4 liter engine or fork over the extra $5k+ to get an '11 with the 6.7 liter... I use it for hauling my big, old steel gooseneck horse trailer and for work around the farm.

Which should I go with??? 6.4 or 6.7?! Thanks in advance for your help!!!

 

Welcome to FTE. That is getting harder and harder to decide this things with the newer emissions and warraranties.

If you can afford it I would go new as opposed to older.

Others will chime in soon I am sure.

Newer emissions and farm work can be problematic unless you have some hwy time as well.

 

125 views and only one opinion?! I'm a bit disappointed... lol

 

hang in there...people might be on their way home from work or having dinner.

 

If you can swing the 6.7, which it seems you can, that's what you want.

 

I don't and haven't own a diesel, but i agree with Senix, if you can afford the 6.7, I would go with that over an older truck just for less time for someone to do something stupid and newer technology

With that being said, I haven't seen to many threads flow through the SD/HD forum with issues relating to the 6.7. There have been quite a few with the 6.4 but most of them were the owners fault, and the 6.7 hasn't been out as long so you need to take them with a grain of salt.

I believe that the 6.4 has a lot of power but has economy issues mainly related to emissions equipment and to get the "Diesel economy" that most people think of you need to upgrade the emissions equipment or delete. and then it needs to be tuned tuned. Deleting and tuning is illegal and most tuners now won't touch it, especially since Hyperchip got sued.

The 6.7 seems to be a solid engine with good economy and gobs of power and not to to many issues that are not related to user error. so it looks like Ford made a good decision to bring the engine building in house.

So like i said, if you can afford the 6.7, my personally i would go that route mainly for the sole reason of the newer truck. But i would suggest you pop down to the 6.4 section and the 6.7 section and see what there is to uncover for yourself.

Justin

 

For your application, I would consider a gasoline engine instead of a Power Stroke. The lack of highway miles will not be beneficial to the DPF regen cycle with either engine.