Turbo Diesel Truck Opinons/Experience

[John Bruh]

Warrantied tires?

 

Hey I was trying to help you but I see that was pointless

[XChris1632X]

 

1996-1998 12v motors are great, good fuel mileage, mechanical pump, a lot of guys p-pump them. Biggest concern is the auto trans issues and front end issues. Also rust.

 

1998.5-2002. Injection pump issues. Rust on the doors, front fenders, wheel wells. Front ends are normally trashed. Decent trucks. No crew-cab offered. Dash's crack and fall the pieces.

 

2008-2010- nice trucks. Twin turbo, tons of power. Most get 10-14mpg which is horrible. I had one that was on 37"s had a dpf delete, egr delete, 320hp programmer and it ran amazing and got 26mpg. The truck was crazy fast. Now some of these trucks had a radiator issue which caused other problems.

 

 

The mechanical injection that you speak of on the 12v trucks are p7100 pumps from the factory. This is the p pump. The trucks you are refering to people p pumping is the 98-02. They replace the vp44 injection pump. Like berto said, they are jot bad pumps for what they were designed to do. They start having problems when people install programmers that require the wire to be tapped which increases the pulses.

 

I think the new ford truck is going to be way more problems than the 6.0l

 

The 7.3l trucks had more warranty claims/issues than the 6.0s. TRUE STORY. Buy a 05+ though. Redesigned injectors and a tons of other things.

 

Check out powerstrokehelp.com

 

 

This is true but, the dollar amount on each claim is half of what the 6.0l were.

 

15k is about as much as I wanna spend. I found a 99 7.3 Powerstroke for 5k, but my buddy Shanon said the 7.3 are headaches, and to look at the 6.0 Powerstrokes. You wouldn't happen to be the guy that does the EFI Live diesel tuning for Warrior Racing would you be?

 

I do not tune for them. I just do it for myself.

 

Just took in on trade a 2005 6.0l with 250k the they never spent 2 dime on.

 

Most people that hate the 6.0s have never even owned one.

 

I hate them because I worked on enough that I know they have problems. I think they are great trucks trucks with the exception of the egr. If you delete the egr on them, they don't have most of their problems. To those who don't remove the egr, you have to run the poss out of them. If you run them hard, it helps to not allow everything to clog up.

[DavidBaustert]

Hey I was trying to help you but I see that was pointless

 

Uh?

[xlr8tn]

I have an 06 duramax that I love. 4" straight piped, bars cranked a little, and a conservative tow tune. Hauls ass for such a big truck.

[Scotty2Hotty]

Besides mechanicals, here's what I've noticed with the brands as far as suspension is concerned:

 

Ford Superduty: Anything over 100K miles (especially lifted) get ready for ball joints, tie rods, and a new pitman arm nut.

 

Dodge: About the same as the Fords. Skip the newer Dodges as in 09+, for the front ends on those things are absolute junk.

 

Chevy/GMC: over 100K, ball joints, tie rods, idler arm, idler arm bracket and pitman arm.

 

Since I lift these trucks on an almost daily basis, I think it boils down to the power plant you want. Anything Pre-05' shouldn't have any emissions crap to mess with, but as it was said, you can basically do as you please since Ohio doesn't really have any emissions testing.

 

If it were me, I'd lean towards the Cummmins truck.

[Charged SRT]

well the only experience i have is with 2 6.0 power strokes in my excursion and the old Detroit 6.5 in my h1, the power strokes are good so long as you nip their common issues before they cost you a motor. As im sure the rest of you know, the head studs are terrible as are the vvt turbos, had a turbo turn into shrapnel. If your smart about what mods you do they will last. As for the 6.5 diesel, i could not kill that thing. Now i know you said newer diesels. basically any 6.5 after 99 does not have the #8 cylinder failure problem. And i have to say that clatter heap of a motor just kept going and going. Hope that helps.