Here I am hanging out with the Dodge Owners...

Them second gens still the best lookin'.

Check your "title" Mike.  Reads like you were amongst a bunch of Furd owners!!!    

Shhhh! Not so loud! I don't want them to figure out they were excluded in the picture.

Check your "title" Mike.  Reads like you were amongst a bunch of Furd owners!!!    

Good for you, Dork!  I didnt catch the FLAW,   [  sorry, Michael,..30 stripes for that one!   ]

Edited June 6, 201510 yr by organicfarmer

Shhhh! Not so loud! I don't want them to figure out they were excluded in the picture.

 

 

Not difficult when they are always inside a shop

Not difficult when they are always inside a shop

 

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Perfect point to shove a cummins in that ford.

Someday I will have a obs 4 door ford f350 with my motor/trans.

Hopefully the Vin is a gasser Vin so I won't ha e t worry about diesel emissions

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Looks like the bed should be the engine bay for enough room to work on it 

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Is that a picture of a "lifted" Ford??!!!  

Is that a picture of a "lifted" Ford??!!!  

Soooo, what's the story behind this one?  Someone brought it in to get the valves adjusted?

Ford's have to lift the body off to just do any head work. There isn't enough room under the hood to do it. So the body has to be lifted to access the engine.

That's terrible.

That's terrible.

 

OK. Show me the heads? Even with the body off I still can't see the heads. This is a Ford 6.4L

 

What a nightmare! Must say something about the engines inefficiency to need all that or just plain bad design. Maybe both.

No. It to just pass EPA / CARB regulations. Just look at even Wild & Free's post about the DPF and EGR delete even the VW's have a good amount of junk piled on.

Yes, I see...isn't the piled on things on top mean anything or, in a sense, speak to how poorly it runs?

Mostly smog equipment.

 

Here have slice of this... I though VP44 replacements where bad check this out...

Ridiculous. Pre EGR/DPF Dodges are still holding their price. I don't know why but 2nd gens cost almost as much as 3rd gens on the used market. Every 6.0 guy I know that hasn't modified their motor has run into EGR, oil cooler and turbo issues. There's a couple guys out there that love their 6.0s, but that's because they did all the deletes. My dad just got a brand new F150 Ecoboost 2.7 V6 twin turbo, I'm scared to think what he's going to run into with all that mess under the hood. 

Thing is over on the RV forum I moderate on the Ford trucks (diesel and gas) and Ford Ecoboost are the most popular truck out there. Funny part is Dodge Cummins truck are the least most popular truck in the RV forums. Next is Chevy just below the Ford.

 

Now not to bash on Ford solely I can nit pick about Dodge, Chevy and Ford all the same. Each have their issues but I have to draw the line at lifting the body off to do a head gasket.

 

Dodge isn't too much better now with the newer 6.7L EGR cooler, DPF, etc...

Most are lifting the cabs / front clip to do engine work on the Duramax too. Not sure how long it takes to lift one of those but all the guys who have done them on the Fords say 1.5- 2 hours to have it lifted off the frame.