The 6.0 engine is actually pretty good, it is all of the JUNK that Ford put on them that is bad. I used to buy them for pennies on the dollar with leaking head gaskets, egr coolers, oil coolers. I would do the Bulletproof kit with a reprogrammed FICM and it was amazing how well they ran. Brought good money when they were done.

Mine was 3,200 out the door, thats about half what a dealership would charge

So you had EGR and oil cooler done prior, and just studding the heads costs 3200?

1800 in parts the rest is labor, I had some additional parts that where over an above a regular studding, broken Injector 200 bucks, expansion tank replace, T handle on the dip stick was broke and a couple other things, this also included an oil and filter change and fuel filters, keep in mind this was a good friend of my brother-in-law, all OE Ford parts at cost, I paid Brian an extra 200 bucks on top of his 1200 labor

One of my customers is Modine who built the EGR coolers, and Ford insisted on a low quality alloy to save cost. I wonder what that cost savings cost Ford in the end?

I have 6.0 with al the fixes, but still think of it like a 2 stroke outboard. I just hope at the end of the day, I can put the pin back in the grenade.

that was cheap. Sounds like he was attentive and cautious also. Save that guys contact.

as the owner of that gladiator asked, I added the air inlet in the front fender, which is from 2008 - 10 model trucks. Not that he ever misses anything! LOL

Your boat went to a good home, Steve spared no expense making it perfect.

That whole 6.0 program was doomed from the get go. Ford wanted a new more efficient and powerful platform knowing what was coming in 07.5 with the higher emissions requirements. And there was Navistar caught in the middle, they built a tough bottom end and valvetrain. Ford had them slap all the extra ancillary pieces on after the fact to meet emissions. I don't fault Navistar for what they created in the 6.0 bottom end, that is a tough engine. Cummins on the other hand changed the cam profile to naturally create an egr internally.

I use to work @ Modine building Ford radiators in Emporia, what a thankless job that was.............lol