Originally Posted by LaxPlaya21

4 bad injectors were replaced

Originally Posted by tex25025

Which four? 5, 6, 7, 8? If so, I would highly recommand doing the RR kit.

Originally Posted by Wyatt66f100

Speaking as a Ford Technician A rough run smoking situation can be absolutly the problem. and from what it sounds like, Your technician was putting a new fuel regulator. this is located on the secondary fuel filter canister under your hood. This was a known concern with 6.0L engines. This is also a cause and effect chain. The Fuel Regulator failed due to crappy fuel (there is not much you can do about that). and due to the fuel regulator going belly up it changes your fuel pressure out of specification for your fuel injectors. And becuase the fuel pressure is out of spec injectors start to fail. I would reccomend staying on good diesel where you can find it. you can do this by taking a sample at the pump and sticking with the pump that has the least cloudyest fuel. Also adding cetane booster every 3 or 4 tanks would help lots too.

Originally Posted by LaxPlaya21

So how often should I change the fuel regulator? The tech said to me that he has never seen 4 injectors go when there was no issue with fuel pressure. I know in the past he changed out the fuel regulator, but I don't see that he did that this time. How do you feel about leaving in synthetic oil for 6-8k miles? Instead of just running conventional 3-4K?

Originally Posted by supertruck60

Hi,

Always great to hear from our customers

We believe Hot Shot's Secret is the remedy for the problem.

I have cut out a section of an article that we are working on for this blog which better defines what the real issue is and why Hot Shot's Secret is such and amazing go-to remedy for this engine.

"To increase the efficiency in modern diesel engines, manufacturers have increased the pressure at the tip of the injector. This increase provides for a better, more efficient burn with added power. Older injectors would put out 1,200 psi at the injector tip but the new diesel engines put out 26,200 psi at the tip. To achieve this increase in pressure the manufactures had tighten the tolerance inside the injector. This increased the friction and temperature. The higher temperatures have a burning effect on the engine oil. A layer of oxidized oil and additives form, slowing down the injector and eventually stopping it altogether."

Taken a step further...one would have to wonder if a lot of the other issues with the 6.0 don't tie back to the lubrication-injector failure dynamic? I was thinking about this the other day. What about the EGR issue that seems so prevalent? Could that be from an inefficent or malfunctioning fuel system? What about issues as far as the HPOP??? Or how about the turbo issues??? Could these all be related???

Our customers who are using the Blue Diamond product as well as Hot Shot's Secret on a regular basis have high mileage vehicles (some with 500K+) and are very pleased with the results. We hear words like "a quieter engine, no turbo lag, better fuel mileage, easy starts etc..."

The only claim we can make is that we know that the product corrects the stiction issue and this in turn helps the engine to run more efficiently. It was designed independently and tested by International for this purpose. It was given a thumbs up because of its effectiveness.

We hope to have the article online for everyone's viewing sometime in the next week.

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Originally Posted by Wyatt66f100

Now this is my personal feel on oil changes, (shhh don't tell) When a ford dealer sells you an oil change at 39 dollars or what ever the lowwest they charge may be they make pretty much no money and are on the boarder of losing money. so when people have the option of lifetime of free oil changes they definatly lose money. As a mechanic 3K solid all the time. why do you think they tell you 5K? so its less often for them to lose money. evil isn't it?

Originally Posted by Wyatt66f100

If it were me i'd go full synthetic every 3k. Oil is oil but it gets dirty the same way. it turns black because of carbon residue from combustion so there is no such thing as oil that stays cleaner for a longer period of time. synthetic definetly helps lubrication though. no addatives. my 2 cents.

Originally Posted by rnolloth

Unfortunately the hot shots treatment did not help my truck.