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Ranse
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Topic: Truck dilemmaPosted: 3 hours 11 minutes ago at 12:33pm |
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I recently purchased a 2011 ford super duty truck. It has a 6.7 diesel with 192k miles. I bought this truck for a farm truck not an everyday driver. It looked nice and seemed to run excellent, I thought it would meet my needs. After getting it I spent $960 having a gooseneck hitch installed. I also spent around $800 fixing minor issues I found. But I found one major issue, an upper oil pan leak. This was a big job requiring the transmission to be dropped, to much for me. I found a guy to fix it for $2500. He found a few other issues so it ended up costing about $4000. He also found another problem he did not fix. Metal shavings in the fuel filters. He says the entire fuel system needs replacing. If not, there will be catastrophic engine failure. He explained to me that fords have a poorly designed fuel injection pump that wears out and contaminates the fuel system. A common problem with fords. So I’m at a crossroads with this truck. I’ve already got more in it than it’s worth. I could try to sell it as is and lose thousands I’ve invested and have no truck. Or I can spend more and fix it. It’s probably going to take close to $10,000 to replace the fuel system. Naturally I wish I never bought this truck but I can’t do anything about that now.
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PaulB
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Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Location: Rocky Ridge Md Points: 5159 |
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Posted: 1 hour 10 minutes ago at 2:34pm |
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I met a Ford dealer yesterday at a tractor pull that was telling me all about how he specializes in only Ford diesel trucks. He had 2 of the HARLY DAVIDSON (HoundDawg) edition specials on a trailer that were only used as pull trucks. And he was pulling the trailer that hauled both with a Newest and latest KING RANCH 4 door. So my guess is that there is plenty of money to be made in the repair business of Ford diesels. Of course I don't know of any Ford diesel lover that their truck doesn't spend more time at the shop than on the road.
If I was in your shoes with what you've described, I'd unbolt the hitch and remove anything of value and that truck would somehow catch fire out back somewhere and then a call to the insurance agent would be made. Just sounds like owning a boat: a hole in the water to throw money into. The other option would be to pull the motor for the boat anchor that it is and replace it with a Cummins. The make adapters to put the Cummins into Fords and Chevys, but I've never known anyone to put a PowerJoke or Duracrap into a Dodge. My ideal truck would be a Chey/GMC Cummins powered with the Allison 10 speed auto.
Edited by PaulB - 1 hour 9 minutes ago at 2:35pm |
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If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere.
Real pullers don't have speed limits. If you can't make it GO... make it SHINY |
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