Just got of the phone with my buddy mech at ford. He got his first 6.7 in this morning with a hole in the side of the block.....
I know you guys are gonna want pics and wont beleve me but its true i personally saw it being towed away and a 6.4 being hooked to the trailor it was on.
The company is cleary builders form up here in madison they run 150 6.0s and 50ish 6.4s and just ordered 30 more 6.7s they already have 12 6.7s one of witch is broke.
The mech said from what he can tell the bolts werent all tightened correctly but who knows.
Hes pretty upset with ford making him tear this motor down when clearly he needs a new one but whatever im just postin up what ive heard.
Take it for what you will dont get mad at me just wanted to share this info i hope this isnt a common problem as i am a huge ford fan.....
The company is cleary builders form up here in madison they run 150 6.0s and 50ish 6.4s and just ordered 30 more 6.7s they already have 12 6.7s one of witch is broke.
THey have 150 trucks with 6.0's just in Madison? There is a cleary office about half hour from my shop and they are driving junk... Some obs trucks even. Post frame construction must be booming in Wi. That shop must be floating all the rest of them! ha ha...their buildings arent all that great in standard form. They're an old competitor of mine....
he covers south wisconsin hes in charge of makeing sure the trucks stay on the road it was a 150 cause i couldnt beleve it just like you guys cant and he said yup 150. Next time i talk to my mech ill ask again. But it is more then 15 cause they are everywhere around here.
I always see mexicans driving them Not saying thats bad but im sure they are extra hard on them. The guys we have working here we got 8 of them and they are great guys but man are they hard on equitment
I almost bought a Frod. After reading all these post, I know I made the right choice for my $53,000. Believe me, I considered a new Ford. It was my wife that said no way and boy was she wiser then I can give her credit for. Maybe 2012 will be their year.
The new Cummins might just be a force to worried about. I'm a huge fan. If they only had a better truck built around the Engine, I might just be driving one. Love the engine, hate the automatic transmission.
Frankly it's now 2011 and Ford yet has a proven power train. I was once a Ford man, if only they had their Sh&t together I would still be driving one.
okay who cares? Drive your dura####. have you ever heard of the 6.4?
this is just one of how many thousand 6.7s out there.
Glad to here that everything gm does works flawlessly:doh:
Also you paid more then 53 for your gm. Not only did you buy the truck but your tax money was used to build the truck in the first placeointlaugh:!
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Should have bought a 7.3 best engine ever! Haha jokes. How could you say a GM was such a better idea due to one engine having a problem? There are very very few engine problems with the 6.7 to date. Seems to be a very successful engine. But it is a mechanical item and anything can go wrong and as mentioned before with the huge numbers of ford trucks out there that have been sold you might have a few with issues with a couple.
My peach of a woman said this "I see a pile of metal and four tires when I look at cars. That chevrolet truck looks like a lowrider compared to the fords though."
The one gimmicky thing that she likes is how the bluetooth in my 2011 dmax is setup to broadcast phone calls over the audio speakers.
Not to get off topic but I talked to a guy about a month ago on the CB down around Nashville.(I drive a truck) This guy back in 04 went out and bought 2 brand new Ford dually's and 2 40ft goosenecks. Needless to say he went belly up. Before he even said they were Fords he said that his trucks kept breaking. My response"Hmmm must of bought 2 6leakers". His reply was yeah you must know about Fords somewhat. I laughed and asked how many injectors and EGRs he replaced.
His brother still has one of the trucks and had somebody down around Nashville put studs and EGR delete and all the other stuff your 6.0 needs to run reliably.
Adding another truck to the small 6.7 problem list. My friend has a 2011 6.7 F450 utility truck. IIRC they put a turbo, and some injectors in it. I KNOW they put a EGR and a PISTON in it. The dealer is completly lost to what the trucks problem is. They put in a black box and told my friend, when it acts up, push the button and it will record all the engine parameters.
O and they also put some SUPER tune in it. It will burn off all 4 rear tires from the start and the truck weighs in a t over 12k
The only thing my wife offered in my truck decision, (AND it was great!) was when we looked at a white platinum metallic tricoat,, she said "That's the color you want" ,, I was looking at white only for sure.... Man she knows me so well after 32 years! Wish I knew her as good! LOL, (Still can NOT read her mind,, as much as she wishes I could)
The company i work for has been bow tie truck consumers for the last 30 years and over 300+ trucks. Needless to say they like chevys.I have burnt through 3 2500 chevys an 1 ford in the last 5 years at work. 1 6.0 gasser and 2 duramax's and the ford well it had high milege and they wanted to treat me to a new truck. I talked them into The 6.4 and it was great but ran into a larger repair bill so they traded up about a week ago after some well, begging because i didn't want another chevy. Had the new 6.7 for almost a week took the boss for his first ride yesterday.....needless to say im sitting at the dealership right now phucking around on my phone with 7 other employees while im waiting to hand ford 7 checks for the new 6.7's we just bought. And all 7 2500 that we traded in are less than 4 years old with less than 40k on each od.
Kind of amaizing to see someone who despised ford a week ago traded in all their chevys for new fords. Is this because chevy makes a better truck and my company wants crappy work trucks? I don't think so.
Congrants Jim, That says a Lot about yourself right there!
I Know First hand after two failed attempts,I'm on 11 years going on 12 :~) with this Gal, My Hats off to ya ! AND the Wife, as it Takes two to make it, Only One to Break it!
ok maybe i missed the mark on this one.. why the hell would someone who sucks the D off the duracraps be a member of psn? dissing ford powertrain? are you high?
The fact that ford didn't take the bailout made me a customer for life. That, and the fact that they know how to build a TRUCK. Talk to me when your GM gets rid of that IFS. JUNK!
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