Well, ended up selling the e99 7.3 I bought back in June. Fortunately was able to get my money back out of it and actually make a little bit (because...7.3).
Drove down to Madison, GA on Saturday morning and picked up this 2006 F-350 CCLB Lariat PSD. Pulled out of my driveway at about 2:45am Saturday morning in my wife’s SUV and empty trailer in tow. Got to GA around 8am after a piss and fuel stop, looked it over good, test drove, switched around the trailer, loaded the SUV on the back and turned and burned back to NC. So far I'm very pleased with the truck. The overall driving / towing experience is night and day IMO. With all the updates it's just a much more refined truck (I have absolutely zero interest in driving a 6.7 PSD right now because truck envy will do what it does). I'm now the 4th owner and the truck has 298k miles. It's been in GA and TX all it's life and the owner (again, old man probably in his 60s) didn't know whether the motor had been into before. I had a diesel shop in Madison check it out and he told me it had factory head studs (I confirmed once I got there) and he said he couldn't tell what (if anything) had been done. My guess...it's fairly close to a stock truck.
Bought a Bluetooth OBDII reader and downloaded the Torque Pro app beforehand to monitor shiote on the way home. Below is a screenshot of what I was seeing. To me, things looked pretty good but not sure about the EOT / ECT delta. The highest EOT I saw was about 224* and the ECT hovered around the 12-18* spread but never got to 20 and typically didn't go over 15* but did a couple times. So...what say you
@CasterTroy @Caver Dave @Ron or any of the other 6.0 gurus out here. I've talked to Scott a few times now over at Trucks Unlimited. I am more than likely going to have him do his thing for reassurance (ARP, Ford gaskets, test / deck heads, new oil cooler, not sure what I'll do w/ EGR yet). Other plans for the truck are pretty basic (MBRP 4", Livewire TS+, Ford updates w/ blue spring, etc., coolant filtration, some of the others things being mentioned in the 6.0 Tunes thread, etc.)
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