Originally Posted by
JDL1000
Either way Ford has not produced a diesel sense that the public has been more happy with. So that drives the prices of the 7.3's up. The 6.0's had about the same emissions as the 7.3s and they were having problems (blown headgaskets etc) making the 6.0 one of the least wanted diesels made by ford..
Not entirely true.... 7.3 diesels were not mandated under federal regulation to be enviromentally clean (with no EGR), it was in 2000 that Ford was served notice by the EPA backed by the US Congress to clean up there diesels, hence the 6.0 with EGR's in 2003. Only reason why Ford did it because a fleet of 7.3 Diesels consisting of more than 100 trucks would emit more than 20 metric tons of carbon per year. EPA presented this to Congress and they hit ford hard (largest truck seller) changing to the navistar 6.0. Thats why it is important to purchase a late model 04 motor in 05 trucks. Most kinks were worked out.
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Ryan
1990 Mustang GT (In Process)
1993 LX Coupe (Daily Driver, but just choose not to)
2005 Excursion (Big Pig)