[Joeaksa]

Originally Posted by slow&rusty

+1...funny enough this came up at Dinner last night. We all agreed that the older 7.3 was a far more superior engine, although it lacked the power of the newer 6.0. The 6.0 has been plagued with lots of expensive problems.
Yasin

Assume that everyone knows why this is?

Ford got hit with a massive fine from the EPA because of "testing irregularities" in the early 2000 time frame. To put it frankly, Ford got caught cheating on some things and was given the option of putting the new engine in service NOW or later with fines. They chose to do it right away and did not have time to do much prelim work on the new version of the PS engine. The early version of the 6.0 engine cost Ford a lot of warranty work and has a bad reputation.

Good friend of mine lives these engines and knows the whole story. He is a dyed in the wool PS guy and grumbled a lot when I bought my Cummins. Loaned it to him for a few days to drive and now its worse. We do not even talk about fuel mileage (I get 27 on the highway, he gets 20 at best) and like Kaisen he gives me schnit about its being noisy. I could care less as once you are rolling you cannot hear a thing.

Caught him the other day looking on the internet at Cummins conversions into the Ford F-250 chassis. Guess the 27 mpg and 500,000 miles between overhaul got the best of him! You guys enjoy your 6.0 engine ya hear!