07 Dually hit 500k miles last night - Ford Powerstroke Diesel Forum

 

Here's my big girl!!And I ain't never selling her!!

 

I'm in the same boat, this will be lengthy, but there is a point...

When I bought my 6.0 Excursion dubbed "The Monster", my plan was to sell my 7.3 Excursion to make up for the cash I just spent. I tried selling it, but it was half-hearted, I couldn't bring myself to let hit go. Too many miles, too many memories, and way too much sentimental value, so now Rudolph remains in the fleet along side it's 6.0 brother.

With regard to the OP:

Why fix was isn't broken?

You've done the engine work, it sounds like you do a great job of maintaining it and the truck hasn't let you down. Too many times I see someone decide they just want something new and talk themselves out of a good truck only to regret it later.

Your truck performs and faithfully answers the call of duty, all it really needs to last is maintenance:

-Oil every 5K
-Trans fluid every 30K
-Fuel filters every 10K
-Good, clean fuel when it gets thirsty

I've faithfully done this on my 7.3 Excursion Rudolph and now have 451K on him (bought August 27th, 2001 with 50 miles) and haven't had a catastrophic failure in 16 years and 451K. All I did was properly maintain the truck; whatever it needed, it got. If engineering at Ford cut a corner, their cut corner was fixed and updated with parts designed to solve the issue.

The same goes for my 6.0 Excursion The Monster. When I picked it up from the dealer October 13th, 2013. It had 123,860 miles on it and had a bad oil cooler and leaking EGR cooler. The PO bought the truck new and it never really was maintained aside from oil changes and filter changes. I took the time, spent the money, and did the work myself to get the truck up to a satisfactory maintenance schedule and it lasted me another 123K before a botched headgasket job reared it's head.

The bottom line: The new 6.7 truck are nice, they are powerful, and they are downright comfy, but unless you have a pile of money burning a hole in your pocket, well even if you didn't, leave well enough alone and keep what you got. When I began the search for a new truck in 2013, everyone expected me to buy a brand new Super Duty with the 6.7. When I went to the dealer and the showed me what my payment would be despite awesome credit and money down, I decided against a 6.7. My 6.0 Excursion I ended up buying will be paid for at tax time, if not sooner, and I won't have a payment. I'll make a payment every now and again in either repairs or maintenance, but I'll take that over a $700-1200 a month truck payment.

Keep on trucking with your 6.0

 

In my world of trucking/hauling we have guys every day go buy newer,not just ford but everything rigs,brand new 40ft trailers and go to hauling. Then start having problems,breakdowns and warranty covers alot but meantime they are sitting at home with the same payments, some smart put money back,others not so much and deeper they go. All say about the same thing,bought for warranty,it pulls and rides great but they do break down when used for what a trucks built for day in day out. But they sure look good.

 

I have a preference to deal with the devil I know before the one I don't.

 

Sometimes the older stuff works better than the newer stuff...

My buddy is crying about his '07 F250 needing some cooling system work (radiator and hoses) and he says he should've bought a brand new truck with a warranty.

Yeah, you'd have a new truck with a warranty, but you'd also have a much larger payment (as opposed to his $200 a month payment) and you wouldn't really be able to work on it yourself. He bought his 6.0 because he was jealous of mine and loves the truck, just not when it needs some work. So I remind him of how well I know his truck, how his labor is free with me since we're the best of friends, and how he could be at the mercy of a shop that's backed up for a month.

 

You could also point out just how many sit at the dealership waiting for parts
or the mechanic to get around to them and then still wait for parts.

 

Don't kid yourself Sean, I know of dealers that do that on purpose. They '"so kindly" give the owner something newer to "get him by" for a few days...the rest is history and the old ride is sitting on the lot for sale.

It's way to easy to fall in love with something when the old flame is left out in the cold waiting for some love.

 

Yea me too all the way 2006 for the Grand Finish of all time. And no spilling pee on us 6.0 guys while attempting to get it in that tiny hole in gas door. Thats enuf to ruin your whole day. Even spilling **** on your boots is another bummer factor


I also see the 2006 interior as luxurious adding a nice plush carpet kit is a big upgrade for on the cheap and along with the wood grain dash and door bars look great.
I don't like the center console are all the new trucks have today. Not the flat panel design that Ford came out with, I just don't like the feeling of that particular setup myself either as well as the front ends on the newer trucks. The side seam of the hood and fender looks bad in my eyes.
But I have seen some dolled up pre 2017 F250 trucks that are the 6.7 model trucks that I really did enjoy their looks with lifts on them and appropriate sized tires for the truck too. 38/15.50 is a favorite of mine. But nothing like good ole 40's that can be squeaked in under the fenders when possible . As far as those front door storage pockets you mentioned, I must admit that I cut them off both front doors and I replaced them with same carpet that was in my carpet kit so that it all matches as it should.




Front doors have no more lower door pockets. (CHOP CHOP) Simplified the door panels by cutting off the giant lower pockets and using a special adhesive glue for fastening the carpet to the door panels.

Dynaudio 8" components in front doors with 1-1/8" tweeters in ft and rr doors.


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Each Door Has: Approx. 50lbs in Dyna-Mat along with a additional 15lbs in MLV as well. The inside of the doors have been upgraded with the sound deadening CLD layers along with 1 polyurethane open cell inside on the outer door skin for the purpose of canceling the back wave that comes with car audio drivers directly to the rear of every driver and also smoothing out the sounds from the drivers sound waves bouncing around the enclosures. This trucks doors are well ahead of the newer truck doors because of the noise deadening benefit that comes from them.

Rear doors had what I referred to as poka dots in the recess and it made me crazy. So 1300 3M glue and in went the lush carpet upgrade.

I really like the clean elegant look one gets from just carpet on the bottom of the doors. Plus my pockets were junk collectors and even the dog tossed his low priority items in them.

What I did with my rear doors, ran 7" components in my back doors after going through living hell to reconnect the door locks in the doors using nylon slide sleeves from the door jam up to the pull tabs to replace the mechanical rods used that were exactly where a speaker must go . Once this was done the doors could be locked and unlocked from passengers sitting in the rear seats.


Also nice upgrades to close the gaps from newer trucks is installing a High Plush Extreme carpet kit from Stock Interiors as well as plenty others. Forget the name of the biggest automotive carpet company but they have the best prices and also where these guys get their stuff from. Carpet kits in Super Duper Plush runs around $400.00 for our trucks if you go with sound deadening and Jute materials to have that little extra touch.



This was my solution to update my doors and to get door speakers in the 2006 to be like the 2008 and newer trucks. Which all have rear speakers. Trying to keep the gap from spreading with the newer 6.7 interiors. Our early models have pretty plain door panels in comparison to the newer models. But any update is still a added plus for our ugly trucks that are still better. lol

 

Thats a awesome looking truck there @Shiloh51933 thats also one in very good condition. I like the comment in regards to never selling it.
I am in your same exact mindset and plan is to keep my 2006 to a point where its staying as long as I can drive it as physically possible. In my mind the 2005-2007 F250 trucks are the ULTIMATE top design years in my honest opinion. Its my ultimate Ford trucks thats ever been built, nothing else comes close as far as trucks regardless of make.

Nice rig

 

I have a similar thread on the URL below. She does a good job, so hard to justify paying so much more for a new one, along with all the emission add-ons that come along with new ones. I have been using mine more now and have increased the mileage to 33,000 miles. I would only consider selling for upper $30k range, its a near new truck. Earlier this year I upgraded the Alternator, new batteries, added extra copper $$ to charge more evenly, added built-in trickle charger and put on dual swing out tool/storage cases.

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...l#post16977250

 

Anyone else catch the "stock head bolts" part

 

I saw that f150 power stroke how's that looking

I need something more city friendly

 

Like it has a timing belt and needs to be opened every 100k so it doesn't eat it's own valves....... would have been better off with the I5 from the Transits