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Originally Posted by Railvan
I have a total estimate of $7,700 for the work listed in my original post, but not a breakdown on each item. Since labor is a huge part of the work combining as much work as you can afford to be done at once is a good idea.
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I'm one who believes in oil & fuel additives. I lost an injector and plugged the EGR early on about 24k miles on the engine. Didn't use cetane booster and idled the vehicle for 5-10 min before I drove it. After Ford did the warranty work I started using the fuel additive and quit idling the engine so long. I also changed the coolant every year and a half or so (no coolant filter back then). When I decided to start bullet proofing the engine at 85K, I asked the shop how it looked especially the turbo and EGR. They told me it was surprisingly clean considering it had 80+K miles on it. I did add a bulletproof EGR cooler in the rebuild because they look for any smog mods here in CA so blocking it wasn't an option. At about 85K I had a new harness installed (stock) & swapped the FICM to an HV atlas 40. At 92K I finished the job installing a DP tuner, new aluminum radiator, and had them heat wrap the harness.
I feel replacing the harness is something to think about as I've heard others having the same issue I had with it breaking down. It gets hot under that hood. Finished, I have dumped about 14K into my motor but considering how well the engine looked at 82K, other than the harness issue, I probably could have waited a few years more before tearing it apart.
6.0 gets a bad rap but at 115K, the only thing engine wise that has failed was an injector, two sensors, and a plugged EGR cooler. The rest of the headaches were from Ford equipment failures like the wiring harness, vac booster, alternator, radiator, transmission, and rear end. I do blame how hot it gets under the hood due nature of the 6.0 but I was surprised how much cooler it runs with the DP-60 hp tune installed compared to stock.
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