Originally Posted by super20dan
international desighned the 6.0 and 6.4 to just get tru the warranty period. ford is the victim here but should have recalled every one of these ever made. trouble was there was no fix for this engine for several years. it was private industry like powerstroke help that came up with the fixes. this whole debacle is just mindblowing that people continued to buy these trucks when the problems became known. this is prob the biggest scandle to ever hit the auto industry. people died in ambulances that couldn't get to the hospital. notice how you seldom see a ford ambulance any more?
Not quite. The 6.4 is absolutely a disposable engine, but the 6.0 was an attempt to keep up with the quickly changing emissions standards that the 7.3 would never be able to meet. It was rushed into production to avoid EPA penalties. Diesel emissions regulations have been the major cause of complexity and failures in most diesel trucks since 2003 or so. Manufacturers don't have a realistic test window to make sure these systems work, so the consumers become the test mules.
international desighned the 6.0 and 6.4 to just get tru the warranty period. ford is the victim here but should have recalled every one of these ever made. trouble was there was no fix for this engine for several years. it was private industry like powerstroke help that came up with the fixes. this whole debacle is just mindblowing that people continued to buy these trucks when the problems became known. this is prob the biggest scandle to ever hit the auto industry. people died in ambulances that couldn't get to the hospital. notice how you seldom see a ford ambulance any more?
Not quite. The 6.4 is absolutely a disposable engine, but the 6.0 was an attempt to keep up with the quickly changing emissions standards that the 7.3 would never be able to meet. It was rushed into production to avoid EPA penalties. Diesel emissions regulations have been the major cause of complexity and failures in most diesel trucks since 2003 or so. Manufacturers don't have a realistic test window to make sure these systems work, so the consumers become the test mules.