Hello Everybody


Looking to PURCHASE.
02-03 7.3L Excursion or 05- 6.0L with documents proving all major well-known drivetrain issues/recalls have been addressed..ahem head bolts. Religious about servicing is a huuuuugee plus. Using high-grade fluids etc
Mostly Stock, no more than 2 owners + Clean title. MUST PASS CA SMOG.
Documents proving service or parts replaced is a big plus.
Leather seats in great condition, nonsmoker, Rust or Black paint, lifted more than 3" ((Deal Breaker))

Message me below with a brief description of your truck with a few pictures and what sets your truck above the rest. Also, name your price.

Answer this question first in your reply so I know you fully understand my requirements. What is the average MPG of your Excursion?

 

Welcome to FTE!

Probably not gonna get much traction here in this forum with this particular post. We have a marketplace here that you might get some on. There are also a few spots here such as the "Craigslist find of the day" thread that may be of some use.

 

Lmao, Wants to buy a world renowned reliable 7.3 or a known money pit turd 6.0 but the ride height regardless of the suspension providing it is deal breaker “

Basically saying you would buy a POS 6.0 with a hacked suspension because it looked neat but would pass up a Bitchen 7.3 with a correctly done great handling suspension because it is 3”

Oh and the average MPG of my 7.3 is ..... 21 MPG ! Haha everyone knows that cause the overhead console says so

 

That's a tall order, but they're out there! For your requirements, I would be driving around nice neighborhoods on weekends and looking for one that might be for sale - ring doorbells of strike up a conversation. A buddy of mine used to have cards printed up, when he saw one he liked he'd put a card on the window asking if it might be for sale and if so, to call him. He found a likely suspect while cruising the lot of an upscale mall... he ended up buying it via a callback using that method.

I'd limit your search to California if it needs to pass smog there, if you buy one from another state there's no way to know for certain if it will pass CA until you get it home. If looking at 6.0s, be prepared to educate owners on what they had done to their trucks compared to what "bulletproofing" actually entails - many were sold "bulletproofing" in the form of a couple inexpensive bolt-ons. That doesn't make the machine any less valuable in the absolute sense, just not worth as much as an owner may believe.

Everyone has their reasons for not wanting a lifted vehicle, but something to consider: lowering a lifted suspension is neither complicated nor expensive (in relative terms), and in the grand scheme of things, it may be cost-effective if you find an otherwise perfect match.

 

The devil is in the details on the 3” part. From my point of view there is nobody producing a 3” spring for the Excursion with the correct spring rates only 4”. The ones that are at 3” are what I would consider hacked. Even so, a 4” lift could be done correctly and address all the issues or could have just made an already problematic stock suspension worse. So to me ruling out a 4” lift when it is realistically the only one that might be done correctly is just funny.

That said, I am sure somewhere on this planet somebody has done a 3” correctly, and despite looking at hundreds of them I have yet to see one.

 

Welcome to the EX forum!

You just joined, and read the rules of membership and forum usage, so you KNOW that we can NOT discuss prices on members rigs for sale here in the tech forum, right? . Those things need to be discussed via PMs and your PM priveledges wont be activated until you hit over 10 posts, so join into a few conversations to let folks here get to know you and get those PMs unlocked.
Good luck on your very specific search.

 

Ever the statesman, Tom for President !! .. uh I mean mod, oh wait.... never mind

 

Found this:

 

Why would you not want an 00-01? They are the better years relative to the rods and transmission. I have a friend that is about to put his up for sale here in south Texas. He is the original owner and it's an 00-02 (can't remember but think it's a 00) Limited 4x4 green with tan. He has taken very good care of it...

 

I don't have a horse in this race since the OP is only interested in the 2nd and 3rd string engines but what transmission differences make the early 4R100s a better choice vs the later ones? I thought it was the other way around with the early ones having the trouble prone mechanical diode issue.

 

I think the mechanical diode was introduced in late 01 or 02...both our trucks are early 00, so no mechanical diode and forged connecting rods...

 

Man I've never seen that guy bare his soul like that. He is human after all!

Disclaimer: I've watched a ton of his videos, and did so as part of my decision to purchase a 6.0 in the first place. I like him.

But, he's only seen one other excursion with later model (06?) suspension/brakes/axles?? @Nicmike do you know Bill???

And it's completely redone but the steering wheel is upside down and the wheels are basically straight?? What the heck man. Bill needs to come to this forum and see all the rigs that folks are building these days before he says he has the best X out there. Rant over, and I'll go watch the rest of the video and see when it was posted..I guess it could be a couple years old by now.

 

"The mechanical diode is a trade name for a type of one way clutch. Ford changed to this one way clutch in all 4R100s for the start of the 2001 model year. At the launch it was discovered that they failed in the gas engine trucks with a certain trick at 4600 RPM. Since the diesels couldn't run that fast the decision was made to only remove them from the gas engines until they could make enough for all transmissions.

There were thousands of gas engine trucks that had their transmissions replaced before they left the assembly plant. Allegedly NO gas engine trucks made it to dealers with the mechanical diode. All diesels had it until March 23, 2001, when the mechanical diode was replaced by the one way clutch it replaced."

As I read this, it's unlikely one found its way into an '02.

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/8...ml#post7287780