New To Diesels. Tips?
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New To Diesels. Tips?
I just bought an 04 f250 king ranch 6.0 4x4 with about 150k miles on it. The truck is bone stock and i was just wondering if there were any tips on owning one of these. I've done my research but would like to know more in the event that I may be missing anything. Any and all tips would be helpful thanks.
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Welcome to FTE!
This might be a good place to start
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/7...-problems.html
and then look over the Tech Folder Topics:
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/3...ch-folder.html
This might be a good place to start
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/7...-problems.html
and then look over the Tech Folder Topics:
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/3...ch-folder.html
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From: Francestown, NH
Don't let this diesel run out of fuel.
It's not like a gasser where you can throw in a few gallons from a can and continue your trip to a gas station.
Oh, and welcome to FTE!!
It's not like a gasser where you can throw in a few gallons from a can and continue your trip to a gas station.
Oh, and welcome to FTE!!
Last edited by Piolet; Jul 5, 2010 at 01:47 PM. Reason: add a welcome
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From: Duncanville
Thats a fact. i have a 6.0 and i fill it up when i get to a quater of a tank. if it starts cavitating, it can mess up injectors. put a better fuel mileage programmer on it. the 6.0 is really underpowered and looses fuel mileage as a result
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No such thing. I have yet to know of a programmer that isn't a performance enhancer first and foremost. MPGs involve a whole lotta variables into it's calculation and there is no one that anyone can definitively pinpoint it to one variable. "You" might think that you have, but there is no way that you truly have. Big difference.
Also, you have to worry about what programmer "your" using. Not all programmers are created equal and not all(in fact, most) are not well liked by the 6.0 as well.
I can go into rhapsodies over the whole pro/con tuner argument. This isn't as straight forward as a lot of people think and that is especially true when you start talking about trying to do MPG improvements.
Now you might see improvements in MPG after having put a tuner on there, but then again you might not see any or in fact, you might lose some after having put a tuner on there. Here is the kicker though. Even if you do see MPG improvements after you put the tuner on there, I would be willing to be that I would be able to think of some variables that could have been factors into "your" higher MPGs that "you" for sure didn't think about. That would make it hard for anyone to say that they could pinpoint thier MPG improvement to one single mod.
Debatable. And I'm no virgin when it comes to modding a 6.0.
Also, you have to worry about what programmer "your" using. Not all programmers are created equal and not all(in fact, most) are not well liked by the 6.0 as well.
I can go into rhapsodies over the whole pro/con tuner argument. This isn't as straight forward as a lot of people think and that is especially true when you start talking about trying to do MPG improvements.
Now you might see improvements in MPG after having put a tuner on there, but then again you might not see any or in fact, you might lose some after having put a tuner on there. Here is the kicker though. Even if you do see MPG improvements after you put the tuner on there, I would be willing to be that I would be able to think of some variables that could have been factors into "your" higher MPGs that "you" for sure didn't think about. That would make it hard for anyone to say that they could pinpoint thier MPG improvement to one single mod.
Debatable. And I'm no virgin when it comes to modding a 6.0.
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