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Have you read up on any issues with them? Ford doesn’t have a great track record with new Powerstoke designs. Every single one of our 350 Strokes has an issue every couple of weeks, and one of our 450s just swallowed an injector at 45k miles. Its cab has already been off twice since it’s 2011 purchase. All under 50k miles, all 6.7s, “the good ones.” These are work trucks that live a horrible life (they’re confined to a couple mile long island and have a lot of idling hours, but the 6.2s in the 150/250s, the cummins in the 750 and buses live the same life but don’t share the same issues. No diesel likes low RPM idling. Is the timing chain on these easy to get to? On GMs new I6 diesel, it’s OHC but the chain is between the engine and transmission!!!!
I love the idea of a half ton diesel. Some Ram guys have nothing but problems with their version, yet others go 400k without issue. A lot must have to do with the life it leads.
Last edited by dukedkt442; 09-25-2019 at 09:56 AM.
@dukedkt442 We have two F-350's at work, that carry barricades around (a 2014 and 2015) that had to have new engines at 130,000-140,000 miles The 2014 apparently had the wrist pin get misaligned, causing it to scratch the cylinder wall, and the 2015 got oil in the induction and cooling system ($20k to do all the work on it). Both have lots of idle hours (like four hours a day sometimes).
We do have an F-450 2015 model that doesn't seem to have any issues. (All of them are city owned vehicles)
Apparently, from what I read, the new emissions systems don't like being idled, and negatively affect the engines.
To the OP, the 3.0L PowerStroke has a timing belt, and an oil pump run off that belt. (That belt has a design life of 150,000 miles)
Last edited by ShirBlackspots; 09-25-2019 at 09:49 AM.
@dukedkt442 We have two F-350's at work, that carry barricades around (a 2014 and 2015) that had to have new engines at 130,000-140,000 miles The 2014 apparently had the wrist pin get misaligned, causing it to scratch the cylinder wall, and the 2015 got oil in the induction and cooling system ($20k to do all the work on it). Both have lots of idle hours (like four hours a day sometimes).
We do have an F-450 2015 model that doesn't seem to have any issues. (All of them are city owned vehicles)
Apparently, from what I read, the new emissions systems don't like being idled, and negatively affect the engines.
To the OP, the 3.0L PowerStroke has a timing belt, and an oil pump run off that belt. (That belt has a design life of 150,000 miles)
Idling the new diesels with a regen cycle is bad for the engines which is why many owners delete the emissions to avoid regen cycles. I know that for company owned vehicles this isnt really an option.
Idling the new diesels with a regen cycle is bad for the engines which is why many owners delete the emissions to avoid regen cycles. I know that for company owned vehicles this isnt really an option.
Yup not good for any diesels but especially the new ones. I only mentioned it so Cogent could really think if it fits his specific needs; I do several coastwise trips a year so it’d work great for me. Slow Idling isn’t good for any engine... we have a 2011 expedition that ate it’s chain at 35k miles and 7500 engine hours. But then again we also completely killed a 7.3 by 75k miles: doesn’t have enough compression to start. The Cummins powered trucks and buses have a high idle feature which is part of the reason those have survived.
I’m not knocking the Baby stroke, just always leery of new engine designs: they always have bugs to work out, as any 3v owner will verify.
09-24-2019, 03:02 PM
