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PSA: The "New" Ford 6.0L Diesel Engine Sucks Big Time

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ComputerWizKid

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I drive the city buses I am on the outskirts of the area I serve therefore they send the smaller Vehicles (Basically it's a Ford E-450 Cutaway van with a bus chassis) and I was recently assigned a "New" Vehicle and it has the Ford 6.0L Diesel engine and Basically I hate the damn thing it is so slow compared to the older International 7.3L engine that my older bus had. Damn Ford and there discontinuing the Good Diesel engine. I have also noticed most of the other public service buses (Wheelchair and the like) are now using the V8 Gasoline engines does that mean the Diesel engines like these are going to go By-By?
My "New" bus is a 2006 with about 125,000 on the Odometer and the "Old" one that they finally retired is a 1997 with about 362,000 on the odometer I know the old bus had alot of miles and was on the second engine but the older Ford diesels were basically indestructible (All they asked for is Fuel, Oil, and tires , and the occasional Oil change). Oh and damn new technology all city vehicles now have a GPS System telling me where to go and how long to be there for. No more stops to a local fast food place on my Lunch break (Not that it was out of the way of my route). Basically I am hating the newer buses and they got rid of my Radio (The old vehicle had an FM/AM radio which I used a crappy FM Transmitter to listen to my MP3 player)

[/End Long Rant of how I now hate my Job and how things are going in life]
 
I've heard numerous complaints about the newer 6.0L Diesel. My girlfriend's father has a '97 F350 with the 7.3L, and the way he takes care of it, you'd think the entire truck was made of solid gold.

I heard the V10 (gasoline) Ford put in some of their recent trucks sucks too.
 
I have not heard any complaints about the new engine yet other then numerous drivers saying "Lack of power" and I have to floor it to get up a hill. But I also noticed when I do go up a big hill the RPM gauge is very close to the red line so I don't know how long these POS's buses will last as in the valley of Connecticut the area is full of hills. Oh and they took away my radio 🙂 I am just joking about that last part 🙂 I really don't care. Call me weird but I rather listen to the engine then music anyway. I love the way the 7.3L sounded
 
I know the older buses had a turbo diesel but I am not sure about the newer ones as I would probably get fired if I look under the hood (Damn new cameras and GPS System). The newer bus has something that I don't know what it is. It's a black box is with an LCD and a Ford symbol shaped button if anyone knows please tell. I can't get a image because the drivers are not supposed to be using Cell phones on the buses
 
The 6.0 Power Stroke has been out of production since 2007 in the F-Series and will be gone from E-Series vehicles by the end of this year. It was indeed an unloved engine and suffered numerous teething problems during its first couple of years, though by 2005 or so it was reasonably reliable.

The current Ford Diesel is a 6.4 litre engine that has performed well and is rather widely liked.

ZV
 
Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
The 6.0 Power Stroke has been out of production since 2007 in the F-Series and will be gone from E-Series vehicles by the end of this year. It was indeed an unloved engine and suffered numerous teething problems during its first couple of years, though by 2005 or so it was reasonably reliable.

The current Ford Diesel is a 6.4 litre engine that has performed well and is rather widely liked.

ZV
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Yep if I remember correct they had a contract to make a V6 diesel. But they had so many problems with the new 6L that Ford did not think they could make a good V6 based on what happened to the first 6L's. So they scrapped it.


Also OP a lot of vehicles were ordered gas as Diesel got so high during the price jump that it put them out of price range, let alone a lot of places did not like the 6L after it had problems the first couple years. I don;t know anything about the 6.4L though. So I hope it does not have the same bad image as the 6L.


Here is what Wiki had and what I remembered about the 6L myself...

"The 7.3L (444 CID) Power Stroke was replaced by the 6.0 L (365 CID) for the 2003 model year. This version was built until mid December 2006 (2007 model year). So many 6.0 L Power Stroke engines were proven to be unreliable, and may have cost Ford hundreds of millions of dollars in warranty repairs and leading to a recall and repurchase of at least 500 trucks."


Also in 2011 Ford will come out with a 6.7L D motor that was "designed and manufactured by Ford".
 
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