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Re: Most Reliable pre-2007 diesel 4x4
[Re: RockRiver223]
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04/08/18 02:33 PM
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Wilhunt
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Hard to beat the 7.3 Fords, I drove mine for 15 years and never did anything except front end work. Very dependable.
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Re: Most Reliable pre-2007 diesel 4x4
[Re: RockRiver223]
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06/07/18 09:27 PM
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Mighty
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Most of the diesels in your price range are fairly reliable IF... and it’s a big IF:
1.) the computers have been left alone
and
2.)the maintenance has been done regularly.
You can kill any truck with cheap programming. Even those legendary 7.3s could be destroyed with a programmer. It was so easy to plug in a chip and turn up the power and reliability blew away like tire smoke.
You can kill any truck with poor maintenance and poor fluids/filters. 7.3s have a brass spacer that holds the cam in place. Cheap fluids and hard driving will eat that thing up, cam starts moving backward in the block and suddenly the CPS can’t read and the truck will not run. 5.9s have cylinders that don’t get lubricated very well to begin with and cheap fluids tend to sludge up and stop the flow altogether. 6.6 Dmaxes need fuel treatments and/or aftermarket fuel system. These are just the quick and dirty examples.
My advice is to take a truck you’re looking at to a trusted and very knowledgeable diesel mechanic to have it checked out before you buy. I’ve literally watched a man receive the news that the $17K he bought last month needed about $11K in work just to run again. It’s sickening. Spend a couple hundred bucks and if you don’t already know a great diesel shop I’d suggest that is part of the shopping process.
MDL
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