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Cowboy
| | Posted on Friday, July 09, 2010 - 06:46 pm: | 
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2800 # wet---3000# dry (not a cummins not a truck he he he ) |
Etennuly
| | Posted on Sunday, July 11, 2010 - 12:17 pm: |
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Well I believe I have made some decisions about what to do with the 6.0. The EGR is going to go away, as with it's multi failed cooler system.
The oil cooler that is the root cause of the failures is going away also. It will get an external cooler and a remote filter of a manly size.
I see a remote manly fuel filter and dryer set up going in also.
Why is it this engine, when used in a bigger truck where they will last for ever, get full size filters? In this truck it has fuel filters, of $99 a shot, that are smaller than those on most 4cylinder cars. My old Chevy pickup has a larger oil filter. And this thing has been proven to need a coolant filter, but has none.
I guess when you have a committee at Ford and a committee at I-H making design decisions they come short by leaning on each other.....but nobody is home!
Still thinking about replacing the head bolts with studs. That is pretty expensive and requires removing the cab for access. May wait on that as I do not intend to run the truck in a way that would blow it apart.
I am a bit confused by the web sights that promote and sell products to do these "up-grades". The supposed experts recommend these things be done, but they say if you are looking to buy a truck that has them done already, walk away, buy another truck. Makes little sense to me, I would have liked to have bought one with the up-grades in place instead of the known to fail stock stuff still in there. |
Gunut75
| | Posted on Sunday, July 11, 2010 - 05:09 pm: |
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The supposed experts recommend these things be done, but they say if you are looking to buy a truck that has them done already, walk away, buy another truck.
They just want you to buy their stuff to fix it. |
Etennuly
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 11:44 pm: |
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Well I have it apart now! I really don't like the poor port matching between the heads and the intake. That is some lame engineering right there. I could have done that better with a tape measure and a drill.
I believe a Cummins might be the proper long term program if you were to need to put 100,000 miles in a year or two on the thing. We shall see how it does with the modifications I am planning. I don't need a lot of power so much as dependability and hopefully some decent fuel mileage. I stated in my first post that it has 365 HP, but have been corrected, it is actually 325. Still a fair amount in this size truck. |
Mr_grumpy
| | Posted on Thursday, July 15, 2010 - 06:57 am: |
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Power isn't everything.
Just to put things in perspective here, over 20 years ago I was driving a B series ERF (google it) running at 38 ton (or more when the ministry inspectors weren't about) with 220hp & a 9 speed Fuller.
Even today I still sometimes drive a Volvo truck & trailer combo that's plated & 40 ton & runs most of the time in the mid 30s. It's got a 340hp & has well over a million miles on the clock.
I've done countless thousands of miles with a Cummins as well, & wouldn't hesitate to own one. |
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