Got ten to spare lol
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Best two days of owning my speedboat was the day I bought it and the day I sold it lol
Same with the stupidest truck Iāve ever owned in the picture!
Bahaha! Let me guess, was it a 6.0?
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Yes sir! Spent somewhere around $12,000 on the motor in a year.
Donāt ask me how I know both of those scenarios. LOL
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I laugh because I understand the pain completely. This one had been rebuilt, studded etc, before I bought it. 4 months later I had to drop $6k into it for head gaskets and a few bad injectors that were only a year old. Sold it after they blew again last summer pulling my wash trailer. That was a serious love/hate relationship.
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I replaced all the injectors, turbo. And egr delete about 3 months after I bought it. Was told by the shop she was good to go.
Then I was down in guymon Oklahoma 5 months later and she just died at a red light. High pressure oil pump went out and ruined all the injectors.
When the ford dealer handed me the keys they said ātrade it off today but not here, it wonāt make it back to Illinoisā apparently they found a bunch of metal shavings when they pulled the motor.
Did you get it back to the great state of Illinois?
I had a '00 7.3 with about 12" of lift, 38ās and a 6 speed that I sold a year or 2 before buying the 6.0. Shouldāve kept that thing.
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I put 150000 miles on my 6.0 and never had an issue. I also never worked it or tuned it.
I wouldnāt hesitate to buy another one as a daily driver just not a work truck. Working a 6.0 is a quick way to kill it
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Made it 6 miles down the road and I traded it for a 2013 fusion titanium. Had 33k invested in the truck and they gave me 15,500 on trade. Owned the truck a year lol
Our pit bosses go through a new F250 every year in the coal mines. I guess its the cost of doing business. We give them a monthly allowance and they take on the rest.
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I sure would lol! In all seriousness though, I really think the culprit on mine was the aftermarket radiator the previous owner had installed on it. I think lower radiator hose mount was smaller than stock, causing the old soft lower rad hose, that wasnāt replaced when he rebuilt the engine, to suction off the radiator easily and overheat the truck. 98% sure thatās why my head gaskets blew twice. Apparently the shop that I had do the gaskets left the old rad hoses on, and it happened again. Didnāt realize it had come off till the temp gauge starting pegging.
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My luck with diesels is awesome thoughā¦the day after I bought my Sprinter, I found a puddle of oil under it in my driveway. Lost a gallon. Got it for half the price of most Sprinters, but that still didnāt make changing out a couple of cheap oil cooler seals in the middle of winter any less painful.
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Those sprinters are nice Iāve been considering one for a long time now. There just to expensive for something thatās hauling chlorine around. Iām talking to a guy down the street about his Chevy 1 ton van . I need a small rig to run around doing little stuff.
I love working out of my Sprinter! Itās a 2010 with about 260k miles on it when I bought it. Paid $7k for it. 170" wheelbase has 14ā from behind the front seat to the back door, and you can stand up in it. Theyāve actually got a good bit of power to them, compared to some of the gutless work vans Iāve driven before. Iāve got a thread on here somewhere about it. Should be the Sprinter van build thread.
Btw, I believe 2011 was the year they switched to viton oil cooler o-rings.
Do you have a video of your raft? Ive been curious since i seen the pic and so are the guys from work lol.
