I'm so over my Ford

[brisawyer]

I love those old trucks like rope is running. None of that silly pull the cab to get to the engine crap. Unless its a major breakdown a screwdriver crescent wrench and a hammer will keep you going.

 

[indiansprings]

My last new ford was a 2005 F250 super duty 4x4 diesel, 6.0 with an automatic, what a pos, it started shutting itself off going down the road, sometimes it would start back up, sometime it would take 30 min, four different dealers, no fix, traded it off, we went back to Chevy for everyday use trucks, tried a Dodge with the Cummins as well, the only problem is the cummins is wrapped with a pos Dodge.
I stay with my 3500 Chevy dually, love the truck, no issues.

 

[Biker Dude]

Yes, the 01-05 6.0 PS is a POS but the 94-99 7.3 Is an awesome engine. As to the OP's Ford, I have a hard time believing a high pressure oil pump went bad at 45K miles unless the truck spent it's life sitting around somewhere, letting all the seals & o-rings dry up and harden. Rotted brake and fuel lines would also be a good indicator that the truck sat in tall grass for a number of years. In my experience, vehicle that go into service after years of disuse have a "shakedown period" where all the flaws show up and have to be addressed before the vehicle is reliable. If that's the case here then the OP should keep the Ford in order to get a return on his repair investment. If he gets rid of it the new owner will probably not have a lick of trouble with it.

 

[komatsuvarna]

Yes, the 01-05 6.0 PS is a POS but the 94-99 7.3 Is an awesome engine.

01 to 03.5 is still a 7.3, but they were a few changes in them. The 03.5 to 07 is the 6.0...and yep its a pile.

 

[gorman]

Yeah, it was plowed with but not by me. The previous owner plowed two seasons and I bought it at 25K miles and I put 45K more on it. I do keep telling myself that sooner of later it will start to make me money but it's not the repairs that I mind, it's the downtime where I'm waiting while work is piling up. Meanwhile my international is at my fabricator's shop getting chip sides made up that I can put on and off with my asv.

I'm really interested in the new 6.7 since it's the only diesel engine engineered by ford without any input from Navistar. Word on the street is that ford "stole" a bunch of engineers from BMW to make it. Every mechanic has told me to wait till 2012 to get one and wait for ford to work out the kinks.

 

[indiansprings]

My cousin runs two of the new ford 6.7's on a 2500 acre ranch, he has had nothing but trouble with them. The radiators on both trucks have failed with less than 20k, one they caught in time, one they didn't and roasted a engine. Ford replaced the truck that roasted the engine since it had less than 5k miles when it did it and the other one the shop had to pull the entire cab to replace the radiator. Almost 20 hours of shop time under warranty to replace a radiator. He pulled a 28' Bloomer trailer with 4 horses to Colorado in May to trail ride on and the truck overheated and had to be pulled over while going up Monarch Pass. He is absolutely sick of them already, they are F350 extended cabs 4x4's with hydra bed round bale beds on them, both trucks have duals.

 

[Toddppm]

That's a ####ty feeling to have a new truck you hate. Mine were 03 + 06 F350's 4x4 with 6.0's , not just the engines sucked but the trans, suspension, electronics etc., etc. etc.....

 

[Biker Dude]

My 97 F350 4X4 had 385,000 on the original motor, turbo, and high pressure oil pump when I sold it and it ran great.

 

[Tdaz250]

Yours sounds like the f550 i drive for work...its gotten a new tranny and a couple other little things but its got 155k with a new tranny and its been running good ever since.

We've got an 08 f450...its not 4x4 but you can load it up full of chips and have the chipper on the back and it feels(suspension wise) exactly the same....doesnt tip that much or anything. 10k miles as of a few days ago and its had no problems(doing that 5 days a week).

 

[andrethegiant70]

This is horrible reading this stuff. The only really good truck for me these days is one that I can wrench on myself. I've got an 86 Toyota with a 22R. I'll buy another Ford when they pay me for trusting them on that ridiculous '89 Mustang. Burned oil at 85,000 and the tranny simply wasn't matched to the engine. Terrible car and I learned a hard lesson.

Doing research with consumer reports is important to me, but it's not very helpful with brand new models. I tend to buy used cars with documented track records. It doesn't matter what else the car does, if it doesn't go 100,000 without a major repair, I figure it wasn't built with the quality I'm interested in.

Sorry you're having trouble... for the money you've spent on that thing, you don't deserve what you got. I'd be pretty cheesed off also.

 

[jrr344]

This is horrible reading this stuff. The only really good truck for me these days is one that I can wrench on myself. I've got an 86 Toyota with a 22R. I'll buy another Ford when they pay me for trusting them on that ridiculous '89 Mustang. Burned oil at 85,000 and the tranny simply wasn't matched to the engine. Terrible car and I learned a hard lesson.

Doing research with consumer reports is important to me, but it's not very helpful with brand new models. I tend to buy used cars with documented track records. It doesn't matter what else the car does, if it doesn't go 100,000 without a major repair, I figure it wasn't built with the quality I'm interested in.

Sorry you're having trouble... for the money you've spent on that thing, you don't deserve what you got. I'd be pretty cheesed off also.

I am the same way if I can't work on it cheap, it isn't worth having, I have a 1998 chevy p/u z71, 1996 2 door tahoe, 1998 suburban, that I drive everywhere and they all have 350's and the pickup and suburb get 17-20mpg on the highway, the tahoe is not near as good but who cares, I have pulled my 18' trailer and pickup be full of oak and it did fine but I also have airbags on it. My beater is a 1970 Chevy half ton four wheel drive and it does anything I need it to do. The great thing about 90's model chevy's is I can get anything interior or exterior from the junk yard cheap because there are so many around.

 

[Oldtimer]

My F550 is getting a spanky new transmission as we sit here and seduce the K-9 online.

$2000 gets a new case (Broke!) and all new guts and a 3/36K warranty, installed and ready to drive. I was happy with that.

Work trucks are money pits, brand does not matter. I have 4K into this 550 in parts and labor since buying it 4 years ago..but it's hauled so many paying loads that I couldn't even guess at the number. Hundreds. And it's plowed every winter since it was new, 10 winters now.
It's earned a new transmission.

 

[gorman]

I hearya. If it pays for itself then heck yeah. If it only pays marginally then your gotta start asking yourself questions. I want a new 550 but I have to wait till they work out the kinks in this new 6.7. I do like the idea of a composite plastic oil pan considering what I paid to replace mine from just rust.

What really costs you in the end is downtime. I want a truck that will earn consistently and I work need to get it towed, take half a day off getting a mechanic to look at it, have it not earning for 2 to 10 days. Warranties are very nice, but if it breaks you still have to deal with downtime even if you don't have to pay. Earn your keep truck!

 

[Oldtimer]

The trick there is to have a cheap beater backup truck. Might cost to buy, fix, register and insure, but you'll use it without a doubt- one way or another.
I need a backup for plowing. Even if it's a rust-bucket with no heater, 1 working light and 1 working back brake..people need to get out in the AM.

 

[mattfr12]

in my opinion and no offense to anyone that owns one and loves it or drives one . the ford P.S.D is the worst deisel engine in a truck. i currently own a 2005 6.0 which is a nightmare have had a 7.3 wich treated me better than the 6.0 but still a money pit. when i buy a diesel truck i expect 200,000+ thousand miles without seriouse mechanical issue. i had to buy a turbo in my first 10k on my 6.0 then the egr valve and so on.

and its not just a lemon a friend of mine owns a ambulance service with around 10 ambulances and thier P.S.D same problems on them all.

everytime i take it to the garage to get by inspection they cant believe my 2nd turbo lasted me 10k miles because of all the problems they have had with them.

i never met anyone in person that owned one that had anything good to say about them. i still have it it has 4x4 and 18,000 miles on it because i quite driving it last winter so i didnt have to put any money into it and has a forsale sign in the window but as soon as people hear the 6.0 liter its an instant shutoff on the sale. asking 25k with dump body with removable roof not a scratch on it.


i drive a chevy duramax as a daily driver and it has treated me good so far but only 30k in miles so will see how it goes from thier first izuzu i ever owned.

when it sells my next back yard jumper is gonna be a slightly used cummins before the emissions crap

 

[STLfirewood]

I have a 1999 F-550. It a great truck that handles weight well and stops really well. It just has a crappy 7.3. I'm use to driving cummins trucks. Wow what a difference. Keep the truck you have do a cummins swap. That will be a great truck.

Scott

 

[mattfr12]

I have a 1999 F-550. It a great truck that handles weight well and stops really well. It just has a crappy 7.3. I'm use to driving cummins trucks. Wow what a difference. Keep the truck you have do a cummins swap. That will be a great truck.

Scott

i actually looked into putting a cummins in it but the cheapeast i could find to get it done for was between 15-20 grand for them kinda bells ill be putting a down payment on another truck.