7.3 Godzilla Engine Failure Thread, Post Them Here
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7.3 Godzilla Engine Failure Thread, Post Them Here
If you have had or you directly know of a 7.3 Godzilla engine failure, please post it here.
Not some YouTube video or a story of a friend of a friend’s grandmother that had a failure. Real first hand accounts of failures.
Lifter/cam failure, scored cylinder walls, broken piston skirts, plug wire failure, leaky front main seals, etc… that sort of thing, whatever you got!
There seems to be a lot of rumored failures but very few actual first hand accounts of them.
Not some YouTube video or a story of a friend of a friend’s grandmother that had a failure. Real first hand accounts of failures.
Lifter/cam failure, scored cylinder walls, broken piston skirts, plug wire failure, leaky front main seals, etc… that sort of thing, whatever you got!
There seems to be a lot of rumored failures but very few actual first hand accounts of them.
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I service six 7.3L as of now. Had the spark plug wire failure on two of the 2020 models, that has been all so far.
Mileage as of last service date
2020 F600 - 83,263mi
2020 F600 - 91,002mi
2020 F600 - 92,423mi
2020 F600 - 117,962mi
2020 F600 - 124,116mi
2022 F550 - 9,453mi
Mileage as of last service date
2020 F600 - 83,263mi
2020 F600 - 91,002mi
2020 F600 - 92,423mi
2020 F600 - 117,962mi
2020 F600 - 124,116mi
2022 F550 - 9,453mi
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I spoke with my son yesterday (Tech at a Ford dealer in Central Texas) and I asked him if he's seen any 7.3's with lifter issues. Said no. He said you rarely see them in the shop. He said 6.7 upper oil pans keep him busy.