power stroke most durable diesel engine?
 

If any of you have read the thread on the new 2005 F-superduty you may have noticed that it says it has the most durable diesel engine. Will some one please tell me how exactly they can claim that? From what I've read and heard it should say least durable.

Totally agree. I'd sure love to know what they based that one on. Apparently reliable and durable don't mean the same thing in Ford-speak?

That marketing material also says that the 6.0 uses a common rail system.

Lots of "typos" in that press release.

Obviously written by marketing types, not the guys in eng'g.

Yeah, it's hardly been around long enough to even think about calling it the most durable diesel.

I think the 6.0 is alot better now then when it first came out. I hope they build one with a twin turbo. I don't know how true that is but it sounds good. :cool:

Better but still far from being right or reliable. Let alone "most durable".

I don't know, I would say it is right now, I am not seeing many problems with 6.0s built after November of last year. I still don't know how they got `most durable`, though. Not knocking Ford, but how do they figure that?

They are probably basing it on the Power Stroke name, not just he 6.0 but also the 7.3

I would imagine that you are correct. I remember reading that more than 98% of 7.3 PSDs are still in service. BTW, Ford sold more than twice as many 7.3 PSDs than Dodge did Cummins, and in a much shorter period of time.

It is what right now?

pfogle is probably correct but that'd be quite a whopper, even by marketing standards. The context of the article was clearly referring to the 6.0.

The 6.0 is right now.

I disagree. Once the give back the PI, performance losses and better mileage of the pre-flashed trucks, I'll start to believe that.

Maybe thats because you have an old one. First year products need time, and you have a first year product.

Of course if it's like those old GM 700R4's, the one in Granddaddy's truck has gone through 4 of them, and when that truck was new the 700R4 design was already 5 years old, you'd a thought they would have got it right in the first 2 years. By the way, tranny #5 is on the way, the TC is almost gone--AGAIN.

exactly right