Actually, no you weren't just asking for help. If that's what you were doing you would have gotten that. Re-read your original post. Most of it has nothing to do with needing help. It's a rant about your truck not being a 4x4, which it in fact is.

My attitude isn't that Ford is perfect, but it is what YOU bought. It's also what I bought. I bought it knowing it wasn't perfect for what I would use it and would need to be modified for MY needs, just like most things, it's the best for what it is, but it isn't perfect for everyone, maybe not perfect for anyone, but YOU and I both made the choice to buy what we did.

If your post was just about asking for help, it would have been much shorter, since the only question you asked was about one sentence, and could have been, "Are there any skid plates out for the 2011 Super Duty that protects the oil filter?"

 

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Rayil did you do any research on your truck before you bought it? Did you know it didn't have skid plates? I mean, obviously you knew what kind of work you'd be doing with it and what kind of terrain you'd be in. A lot of people buy new vehicles and modify them right away based upon the kind of work they'll be used for. I don't think Ford can actually anticipate every kind of situation an owner would put a vehicle through and try to make them 100% bulletproof. Hell if they could do that, we'd all be driving something like an Abrams tank.

 

And if Ford put the oil filter somewhere else, I'd bet there would be complaints that it was too hard to get to for an oil change!

 

Yes I did but things were vary sketchy (being new). Again, research that an oil filter would be sticking down so far that normal driving and anything could hit it. I ordered heavy duty everything on this. I was just doing more research and found that they do offer skid plates on the XL and XLS models but not the lariat or King Ranch - well they didn't list skid plates as a options, I got every option, even the dealer said you ordered heavy duty with snow package - it has to have skid plates.

I was using common sense and if you order 4x4 heavy duty you would think it would carry at least minimum protection. This oil filter sticks down open to anything hitting it. It just doesn't make any sense because it would be vulnerable to just about anything to include rocks, sticks, etc. Even the oil pan and bottom of the engine is beefed up to handle rocks and stuff (thick metal), but you know oil filters, you can stick a pen through it.

In the previous engine, the filter was above. I was not off road 4-wheeling, I was on my rock road and a stick just touched the filter and poke small hole in it. To me just seems stupid that you have to buy new truck and mod it for normal driving, it should be ready for normal driving.

Anyhow, I am sure I am idiot because I didn't see this and have no idea what I am doing according to Ace.

 

Actually it fine where it's at with maybe a guard or better yet, put it back up under hood, easy to get to.

 

Way to go. I firmly believe that 80% of all complaints about vehicles can be traced back to bad servicing, more so for some vehicles like the 6.0 PSD.

 

Are you seriously saying he should have that truck lifted and "done up" with ARBs and all the other stuff, just so he can drive on a stone driveway?

"I recently was out on my land and on stone driveway and engine oil light came on (400 miles). After further investigation I found small stick, flipped up and damaged oil filter, leaking oil everywhere."

I gotta say, if it's in such a place that a small stick can hit it, someone didn't think long and hard about it at Ford.

My V10's oil filter is tucked WAY UP underneath where it would be hard to hit it with anything, much less a "small stick". I kinda feel for the original poster.

 

No Krewat, he stated he drives down a stone driveway after I suggested he get a built up truck. The OP is stating his truck is not a 4x4 based on where the oil filter is located. That's ridiculous. He then stated, "It <sic> a work truck, like in the woods, bobcat work, repair of equipment, etc. If this is not what I should get than please tell me what I should have bought? ...". Based on his description of work I'd get as close to what I posted above as I could afford. If a 2011 F250 4x4 isn't a 4x4, what I posted above sure is.

He also stated, "...I got every option...". That can't be true though because the FX4 option comes with skid plates.

So, if he drives down nothing more than a stone driveway that's one thing. If he truly works in the woods that's another. If he order "every" option that's another thing still.

I also never called him an idiot or told him to suck a smart *** (as he said to me, whatever that means).

 

I feel for him too, but the crying is over.
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Rick, great idea - I call dibs and will cut you in for some of the profits.

 

Great, drive your truck out to our Trophy Truck race shop in San Clemente, CA and we'll fab one up!

BTW, I guess I'd better look at the new 2011 we just bought before we pre-run Baja.

 

Re-read his first post in this thread.

As for using a Superduty OFF-ROAD, it's something I do at least a handful of times every year. And when I say OFF-ROAD, I mean through the woods in Upstate NY in places where there are no trails.

I fail to see at what point in time the Superduty went from a serious 4x4 vehicle, which many people use it for, to a mall-crawling beauty-queen

I often run over stuff in the woods that comes up banging on the floor, the exhaust, all over the place, and while I don't have skid plates, I really should for the transfer case and gas tank and especially the tranny pan.

However, my oil filter is tucked up nice and high where it can't be hit directly. I'd really have to work at it to hit it. Overall, there is almost nothing that can be pierces like that, and especially NOT ON A STONE DRIVEWAY as originally stated in the first post.

If indeed that 6.7 has an oil filter hanging down that low (I haven't looked at one personally), I can't see how it can live for a long time on New York highways where there's always some sort of road debris that can come up and whack it at any time

 

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