here's one for the brain trust

Anonymous-0

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Took our 2006 Ford 250 Diesel to the dealer for a promotional oil change. Pulled in the lot just when the engine light came on. It would not start for them and now some $1100.00 later and clinbing it"s not done yet. 51463 actual miles and yes its a 6.0. not a lick of trouble until today.
 
I had a 6.0 over 120,000 on it. Glad to see it go. Bought a new 6.7 really like it except its so quiet that i some times forget its idling.
 
I know your pain.

My 06 6.0 f350 with just over 100,000 has been sitting in the driveway for about a year and a half. It needs an oil cooler, egr cooler, head gaskets and injectors. I picked up a 97 dodge with a 12 valve cummins to transplant into it. It has about 150,000 on it. Hopefully I will have it done before the end of winter.

As for your problem I would guess pcm or fuel pump but there are a lot of other possibilities with the 6.0.
 
Ford's 6.0 is quite easy to test for a no start. Don't let them play with you. The fixes are however expensive.
 
Something as simple as a $2 O-ring can shut down a 6.0. Good luck with it at the dealer, getting anybody at a dealer who knows that engine is a crap shoot. I get a lot of Ford 6.0 and GM 6.5 diesels in my shop after the dealer wallet flush shot gun jobs. I then get to figure out what is actually broken. 6.0s are like found money to me.
 
My boss found a Cummins 6.7 out of a dodge about 2 months ago off ebay w/ buy it now. Paid a whopping $700 for it, complete w/ about 30,000 miles on it. He basically stole it, but the engine came and now he's not sure what to do with it. Probably gonna resell it but he's still tossing it around.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
With your skill set you could repower the 1855. Probalby have to bring the Cummins power down some though.
 
Sounds like your dealer is teaching its mechanics how to work on your truck without sending them school while charging you a $100 an hour for the experience. As said below a no start situation should be an easy diagnoses (albeit ptobably an equally expensive repair). The problem is most Ford dealers have one or two certified mechanics and the rest of the shop are high school dropout car washers playing the part of a "mechanic" and don't have a clue what they are doing - while the dealer bills you $100 an hour for their time.

I drove Fords my entire life and even came home from the hospital in one but the local dealer cured me of ever buying a new one under warranty again. The last new Ford I owned was a 2006 Freestyle. I brought it to the dealer (only place that would touch the transmission) at 60K to get the transmission serviced, between the actual service and the repairs to fix their mistakes it costed me over $900 and three days out of service for the fluid change. I decided then I couldn't afford to buy another new Ford and traded that POS in for a Kia minivan for my wife. 100K later that minivan has been more reliable than any Ford I've owned in the last 30 years.
 

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