Tacomaman87

destroked could be a big help in the future.

cincydiesel

He's gonna need a bunch of them..

Colo_River_Ram

I would start by removing the radiator cap and parking a Cummins under it

Hvytrkmech

Bed plate leaks, cant really stop it. presents as a rear main.

Turbo's, the 03 had a 7 vein vgt the late 04 and up got a 10 vein vgt.

egr's

heads and head gaskets because the are "NOT" studded and only have 4 bolts per cylinder. Ford did however start to stud the ones they were we reheaded.

ebps, exaust back pressure sensors. the cure was a complete software rewrite to eliminate it. they never ran as good after the reflash.

transmission reverse snap rings, look for a magnetic filter on the hot line to the external filter, then it probably had a tranny and cooler put in it.


Heck just call me, I'll be posting all night.

madhat

Yeah, there is no room under that thing.

That's awful nice of you, Lary. You'll still make good money...

Wait... doesen't ford own cummings? Why would they put that nasty old PS under there anyway?

madhat

Tim, valuable information. I may do that. Thanks, buddy.

Tacomaman87

who would want a 6 cyl cummings in a big truck like that? You need to have a v8 in a 3/4 ton truck or its useless!

roughstock

Im not trying to start a war or trash other brands, but even Ford Guys told me they dont like them.
We have a few 6.0s at work and WOW, we Dumped A TON of money in to each of them, Headsgaskets, turbos, engines, injectors, EGRs, ETC. Easy to drop 5K.
Ill NEVER own one.(and i say "never say Never") We cant get rid of them because we spent too much, we have to get more use out of them.

madhat

I know they are junk.

He bought it without asking me for advice. Now, I have to try to make it a good running truck. He says it runs great.

Hvytrkmech

I liked the Edge Juice/attitude platinum. Good power with adjust ability for both engine and transmission, plus built in gauges.

If you want a flash programmer then go with SCT, they are the "Smarty" equivalent for Fords. They even have flash's available to fix that pesky egr problem.

kreynolds

We've got an early '04 6.0l at work. It's been in the shop alot, but I won't bore you with that. Early on it developed a hard start problem. Ford's solution was to reprogram the ecm and have the injectors cycle before cranking and after shut down. They can clearly be heard ticking while waiting on the glow plugs and for a couple of seconds after shutting the engine off. It was my understanding that they would be reprograming all of the earlier 6.0's that presented this problem. I guess that's something you can look for when it doesn't want to crank. EGR delete should take care off alot of problems. Also the fuel level sending unit can be problematic.

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thought dptuners was the thing for these fords?

madhat

Different years have different programmers that work well. I hear SCT is the best bang for the buck.

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i gotcha well i hope he doesnt have problems with it. my uncle has a 03 6.0 with heavy use and its never given him a stitch of problems...

ktpauley

Mark,

Here is another good forum. thedieselgarage.com . Injector problems for some 03s. Some had C94 injectors. These had bad O rings. You can tell because the oil level in the crankcase gets higher. These were replaced with C95 injectors. A good programmer is the SCT with custom tunes. He can get an Economy tune, about 70 Hp with ERG turned off, torque convertor locked up at 40 MHP, exhaust brake (uses turbo as an exhaust brake). Shoot me a PM, I have the service manual on CD for my 04. I had the head gaskets done the other week under warranty. Cost me $583 for the dealer to install head studs. Keith