Ford 6.7L Power Stroke Diesel :: 2015 F350 Versus F450

I am on the market for a 2015 Ford F350 with an 11' Royal utility body on the back for my electrical contracting business.

Ford have come back to me and said I need a F450 as I am going with the supercab, the F350 can not handle the 11' utility body.

I have head that the F450 can cost more in Insurance and use more diesel. I contacted my insurance company and they said it wouldn't change to much, this is in CA.

Is there any differences between the F350 and F450 apart from the rear axle and larger brakes. Also if there a major difference in MPG.

I currently have a Ford F150 Limited and love it!

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Ford 6.7L Power Stroke Diesel :: 2015 F450 - Gauge Not Moving - Tie Rods And Ball Joints Making Noise?

Pulled into the yard today after about a 20 mile haul with my 2015 f450 6.7.

I shut it down after pulling in, from what i knew everything was fine. 20 minutes later i started it codes and lights went off like the four of july. A wrench light, oil light, temp light and maybe even an obama light. The gauges did not even move. I shut it down, let it cool then after starting it only the CEL came on. I bought two new trucks in 2015 and both had front end alignments off. The f450 doors fill up with water when it rains.

One day after a rain I put my seat belt on and the seat belt was soaking wet. The cab corner where the seat belt spools up was full of water. The tie rods and ball joints started making sounds after 20k miles so i checked them to find they didn't have ANY grease in them!!!! The def fill tube broke off driving through a small dip in the road (i heard it pop). My first new truck....glad l have my 96 7.3.

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Ford 6.7L Power Stroke Diesel :: 2015 - Trailer Brake Set To 10 To Work Well?

I have a 15 F350 DRW 6.7 pulling a 19K fiver with 8K axles and disc brakes, I have to have my brake controller set at 10 to get the brakes to work well. The pads are good, just bled the system using a power bleeder, controller is set to electric over hydraulic with max gain. Why I need to have the controller set to max?

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Ford 6.0L Power Stroke Diesel :: F450 - Fuel In Coolant?

My friend has an F450 with the 6.0, and discovered fuel in his coolant. I have the 7.3 in my truck, and know next to nothing about the 6.0. Can bad Injector sleeves cause this ? Is that the same as "seats" ? I am not up on my terminology. He thinks he needs new heads for his truck, but I don't agree.

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Ford 6.0L Power Stroke Diesel :: F450 - Turbo Malfunctioning When Hot

I have an F450 with a 6.0 turbo diesel with 267000 miles std trans. 4wd and just bought it a few weeks ago. When the engine is cold, the truck runs fine but after driving for 15 minutes, I loose power in 3rd, 4th, and 5th gear. The gauge for the turbo drops from 20 down to 5 and the truck starts blowing black smoke. This starts at 1500 rpms and stops when I am past 2200 rpms.

Before 1600 rpms and after 2200 rpms, the truck has lots of power but withing those ranges, the truck has almost no power at all. When I first got the truck, the problem didn't start until I was up to 1800 rpms. No codes showing up either. I had the truck serviced by a diesel mechanic and the filters replaced using Ford parts. Problem persists and only exists when the engine is warm.

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Ford 6.0L Power Stroke Diesel :: 2004 F450 Won't Start / Losing Power Like Starving For Fuel

2004 f450 with 6.0. Was driving down the road when it started losing power like it was starving for fuel. It carried on for about a mile then died and will not start. No codes at all and we put a new fuel pump on but still wont start. Put a rag with gas in the air box and will run but rough.

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Ford 6.0L Power Stroke Diesel :: 2004 F450 - Hot No Start Sporadically

In the beginning of January I bought a 2004 F-450 6.0 with 186k miles (not sure if its been clocked back).

Since I bought the truck I have had only 2 issues that are odd. One is a hot no start that is very sporadic (its happened 5 or 6 times). I know it needs 500 psi min to crank and when that happens it gets to around 350psi. Because Im afraid of issues I did a oil change the day after I bought it did a road trip of 2500 miles (with no issues) and did a oil change again. All with motorcraft filters, lucas oil stabilizer and I use a little of diesel kleen or lucas injector cleaner every time I fuel up. I was told never go below half a tank so I follow that rule.

The second is a small oil leak from the passenger side. BUT it only happens when the truck sits for 3 or 4 days unused. During my road trip, not one drop. I used it on the weekend not one drop, but since its my 3rd vehicle I park it Sat or Sunday and by Wednesday Ill see the size of silver dollar, I cant seem to find it.

Also it has a egr delete but the heads have not been done, and I want to put a tuner. Would that be ok? I dont drive hard. As a example on my road trip I NEVER went past 70mph(with my wife saying I drive slow) and I averaged around 15mpg. I would like to get more mpg.

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Ford 6.7L Power Stroke Diesel :: 2012 F450 - Rough Ride - Bounces?

I have a 2012 ford f 450 which has the standard Rancho shocks,the problem is the ride is very rough and the truck bounces when the road gets a little bit undulating. How did you fix it.

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Ford 6.7L Power Stroke Diesel :: 2011 F450 - Exhaust Fluid Warning Message

I have a 2011 f-450 6.7 - truck has 70K miles. The other day I was driving and the message said "Cleaning exhaust filter ". I usually keep it running a little to finish. Then shorty after a warning message came on which said "800 Miles to Exhaust fluid empty". So I went to fill tank and it was FULL. Now the warning keeps showing up each time I start the engine. It now says 300 miles to empty. I'm afraid it's going to go into limp mode even though the exhaust fluid tank is full.

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Ford 6.0L Power Stroke Diesel :: 2006 F450 - Runs Poorly When Cold / Better Once Warm

2006 F450 6.0 that I've owned since new. It has had 2 injectors replaced previously, EGR cooler with BPD, and a few other problem parts. As it is getting older, I have recently noticed it runs like absolute dog crap when it is cold. It can't even reasonably accelerate onto the hwy when cold. Once it is up to operating temp, it runs better. It still does not pull like it did when it was new and under 50k miles...but it is at least driveable once warm. I need to do some heavy trailer towing soon and need to get this thing back to accelerating good. What should I be looking at first for the horrible running condition when cold?

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Ford 6.7L Power Stroke Diesel :: 2012 F450 - Engine Light Came Up On The Instrument Panel

I have a 2012 Ford F 450 turbo diesel dual wheel truck,my problem is an engine light came up on the instrument panel so i hooked up my scangauge and found the code P20BA I went further into the diagnostics of the scangauge and found nothing,i cleared the code and drove down the road and the light came back on could the sensor be faulty and if so does any body know where the sensor is located.

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Ford 6.7L Power Stroke Diesel :: 2016 F450 Tuned - How To Improve Fuel Economy

2016 F450 tuned...how to improve fuel economy. DO fuel rails or injectors work...

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Ford 6.7L Power Stroke Diesel :: 2011 F450 - Changing Plastic To Metal Drain Pan?

I have a 2011 f450 that I just bought and it has the plastic oil pan. I see that the newer 6.7 have the metal lower oil pan. Is there a good reason to change over to the metal pan? Is the 1/4 turn drain plug the problem?

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Ford 6.7L Power Stroke Diesel :: Wheezing Sound In Cooler Morning?

After pulling my fifth wheel, I will unhook and the truck sits. The next morning, the truck will sound like it is wheezing for about a minute or so... I high pitched whine sorta. But only on the cooler mornings, after towing.

Thoughts on this? Can't really take it to the dealer yet because its too sporadic.

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Ford 6.7L Power Stroke Diesel :: Getting Low Fuel Pressure Warning Every Morning?

I have been getting a low fuel pressure warning every morning now for a couple of weeks. It normally goes away after the truck warms up, but yesterday it came back on later in the day after a brief cool down.

I am already running ford antigel. I have run cetane boost in the summer and antigel in the winter since new.

Is this considered part of the 100,000 engine warranty or bumper to bumper only?

Truck has 30,000 miles on it, but outside of 36 months.

I'm disappointed in the reliability of this truck to be honest.

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Ford 6.0L Power Stroke Diesel :: 2004 F450 - Revving To Extreme High RPMs And Kill

6.0L revving to extreme high RPMs and kill? Blow turbo was replace, fired right up but upon pulling it out while giving it lower RPMS (2000) engine over revved and killed - Now crank but no start. Checked everything. Removed valve covers, checked injectors, great fuel pressure.

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Ford 6.0L Power Stroke Diesel :: 2003 F450 Surges And Jumps / Code P0528 Coming Up

I own a 2003 Ford F-450 Superduty Chassis w/Utility Body. Owned it for the last 2-1/2 years . So far, the only things needing replacement were an Alternator, FICM, and routine oil and transmission fluid as well as filters.

This past week the truck started lurching while in traffic. I brought it back to the shop and put the scanner on it, and found codes for #1,#3,#5 injectors imbalance and no circuit to the fan motor. Did some research and found low oil and/or dirty oil could affect the injectors, I changed the oil and all filters also removed the EGR and cleaned it too.

I started the truck ran it, stopped, and restarted and let it run for a few. I cleared the codes and did another test. The only code that came up was the Cooling fan P0528 again. I let the truck run. All of a sudden the truck revved up and I could hear the turbo kick in and the engine seemed to take a life of it's own. I did another round with the scanned and found codes for Cruise Control popping up P0565 through p0569 and the p0528 again along with a p1000.

My truck is not equipped with cruise control, but apparently that is what might be making the engine surge. What do I do? What this might be???

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Ford 6.0L Power Stroke Diesel :: Hard Start In The Morning - P0261 Code

The last couple days the truck has been a hard start in the morning. about 28 deg F. I thought the glow plugs were getting weak or a couple of them were out.

Hooked up my AE and pulled codes, one of them was P0261 # 1 inj. Truck is fully warmed up and is running fine. Did a koer glow plug test and it came back ok. Power balance looks good now.

Probably looked different when I finally got it started this morning. Took 3 cranks to get her going and it sounded like crap till it got a bit warmer.

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Ford 6.0L Power Stroke Diesel :: 2006 F450 - Blinking Tow / Haul Light And Shifts Are Real Slow

My friend has a 2006 F-450 and he said the Tow/Haul light blinks and the shifts are real slow. He has stopped towing now and it still drives.

I have read everything from toasted tranny to chaffed wire harness across tranny crossmember to the TFT sensor. My guess is the TFT sensor given his symptoms. If I am right the sensor is just to the rear of where the dipstick comes thru the tranny case. 1/4 turn and pull it out. Kinda like a bulb I guess.

Another question, is it necessary to replace the harness while in there as well? Is the Connection listed below the harness I am asking about? I found these parts on a thread from here:

Sensor (1): 3C3Z-7H141-AA;
Connection (1) 4C3Z-7G276-AA;
Gasket (1): 3C3Z-7C155-DA;
Fluid (10): XT-6-QSP

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