What did you BUY FOR your 6.0 today?

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TurboMustang370

Discussion Starter · Aug 18, 2014

A little off-shoot from the "What did you do to your 6.0 today?" mega thread.
Very simple idea here, show what you bought for your 6.0 today.

Today was an expensive one for me:
-Upper and lower balljoints, both sides
-Center links
-NUC Oil by-pass filter kit
-Couple bottles of Archoil

Looking forward to posting install photos in the "What did you do to your 6.0 today?" thread.

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Sock Puppet

· #1,821 · Nov 6, 2016

It's been raining and cool this weekend so my outside projects got put on hold. Worked in the shop and yesterday I installed my camper tie-downs for the new-to-me slide in pop up camper. I also installed my B&W turnover ball.

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trife96

· #1,822 · Nov 6, 2016

mhatlen said:
Good for you, that's a nice looking truck and by the looks of it, it was taken care of. I am surprised the STC wasn't updated but not unheard of.
Change the coolant at the same time. I drained mine and pushed out what I could by flushing water through hoses under coolant tank. Pull both block plugs too. Then pulled thermostat and filled with water and cup of Cascade liquid dishwasher soap. Took for a 30-40 minute drive and then drained engine. Again pulled both block plugs. I then put a 3/4 hose into bottom hose and started engine and let it run. Water coming out of upper hose and block plugs. After a 15 minute run I drained it as well as possible.
Put everything back together and filled with distilled water. Idled engine 5 minutes and drained. Repeated three times then installed new Motorcraft thermostat and Cat EC1 coolant.

I also put a IPR coolant filter on my truck. I went with the oil cooler manifold for it and it is a work of art.
Once you update the HPO system and get the Gold coolant out of it you will be in good shape. Last thing I would do is the blue spring for the fuel pressure. It will keep fuel pressure at 60 psi. Which is what the 6.0 injectors like and need.

Good Luck with it.
Sorry to hear you went through a flood. Not fun, my uncle did and boy did we have work to do back then.

Thanks, yea it's been tough. Staying at the in-laws has been a blessing but also difficult. As far as the truck is concerned, I'm also going to do the coolant flush and put the CAT coolant back in it, in fact my next purchase will be those drain valves to put in place of the plugs. Do I really still need a coolant filter after all that you think? Also, I was curious about the blues spring upgrade. I'm assuming this goes in where the filter is?

partyman97_3 said:
Where did you buy your parts?

Ford dealer, I heard the aftermarket were prone to fail and not much cheaper

G8orFord

· #1,823 · Nov 7, 2016

Yes, you'll still want a coolant filter. Based on my experience anyway. I got a lot of gunk out of my system through flushing and back flushing, but I've also got a good bit of gunk out of my filter since the flushes. There's just too many places for the crap to hide in the engine to get it all with flushing. I'm not even sure you could get everything if you stripped the block down and vatted it in a chemical bath. :twocents:

mhatlen

· #1,824 · Nov 7, 2016

trife96 said:
Thanks, yea it's been tough. Staying at the in-laws has been a blessing but also difficult. As far as the truck is concerned, I'm also going to do the coolant flush and put the CAT coolant back in it, in fact my next purchase will be those drain valves to put in place of the plugs. Do I really still need a coolant filter after all that you think? Also, I was curious about the blues spring upgrade. I'm assuming this goes in where the filter is?

Ford dealer, I heard the aftermarket were prone to fail and not much cheaper

I honestly don't like those valves because they restrict the flow out of the holes. I just pulled both plugs and left them out. Then I shoved a 3/4" hose into the lower hose and opened faucet wide open. It totally flushed the engine. When engine is running the water blows out of the block plugs. Especially when you rev it up.

As far as coolant filter I'm for it as well. If you do buy a coolant filter get the IPR setup. It's the only full flow filter. It grabs the junk if it's in the engine. It's good insurance really.
But don't waste the money on the little valves tho.

PSD150

· #1,825 · Nov 7, 2016 (Edited)

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PSD150 said:
new Pyle touchscreen headunit with Navi.

PSD150 said:
my head unit arrived DOA, so i returned it and bought a similar Chinese unit... fingers crossed!

well, i got my refund on the remanufactured Pyle unit and the no name one arrived, it works great! a word of warning though... it is larger than double din, so if someone else gets one of these, dont even bother buying an install kit, its useless (other than the wiring interface).

this unit cost me $129.99 shipped and it has am/fm, CD, DVD, bluetooth (for music sharing and handsfree phone use), backup camera and GPS navi included. it looks decent too.

7" touchscreen. by boostdcoupe, on Flickr

also got the new sub box and MB Quart 10" DVC subs, the amp will be here soon...

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PyroTekRob

· #1,826 · Nov 22, 2016

Ordered a Curt Class V (15410) hitch. When that comes in ill need to find time to install it and my compressor kit for my air bags.

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3054tony

· #1,827 · Nov 22, 2016

Paid property tax on it today, safety inspection at 5:30 then new plates tomorrow.

darkpassenger

· #1,828 · Nov 22, 2016

Got these today we will see if they work well supposedly better than stock and they were a he'll of alot cheaper.

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Patriot

· #1,829 · Nov 22, 2016 (Edited)

Got some new shoes for the back. Plow season coming.

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USAF93

· #1,830 · Nov 23, 2016

PSD150 said:
this unit cost me $129.99 shipped and it has am/fm, CD, DVD, bluetooth (for music sharing and handsfree phone use), backup camera and GPS navi included. it looks decent too.

Which unit did you go with?

3054tony

· #1,831 · Nov 23, 2016

After the lady at the license office insisting I need emissions I finally got everything taken care of and am legal for 2 more years

WarEagle_PS

· #1,832 · Nov 23, 2016

Bought a Samsung 7" tablet to run my Torque Pro app on so I can see what is going on with my engine!

DriversDiesel

· #1,833 · Nov 24, 2016

WarEagle_PS said:
Bought a Samsung 7" tablet to run my Torque Pro app on so I can see what is going on with my engine!

Do you have any plans for mounting the tablet in your truck?

WarEagle_PS

· #1,834 · Nov 24, 2016

DriversDiesel said:
Do you have any plans for mounting the tablet in your truck?

Yes, I was going to get one of those inexpensive mounts with the suction cup for the glass.

partyman97_3

· #1,835 · Nov 24, 2016

3054tony said:
After the lady at the license office insisting I need emissions I finally got everything taken care of and am legal for 2 more years

Gotta like the government employees who can't read and interpret a regulation.

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darkpassenger

· #1,836 · Nov 28, 2016

Bought this intercooler will have to wait for now.

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G8orFord

· #1,837 · Nov 28, 2016

darkpassenger said:
Bought this intercooler will have to wait for now.

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Ummm, that pic is not an intercooler. Hopefully, just a bad link.

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darkpassenger

· #1,838 · Nov 28, 2016

G8orFord said:
Ummm, that pic is not an intercooler. Hopefully, just a bad link.

My bad, I meant :Bought this. Intercooler will have to wait for a while. Difference a coma or period can make. Lmfao!

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G8orFord

· #1,839 · Nov 28, 2016

Gotcha. I started to comment on one of your earlier posts, that I'd get the boots first and then get the intercooler. Would suck to put in a new intercooler and still have leaky boots.

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darkpassenger

· #1,840 · Nov 28, 2016

G8orFord said:
Gotcha. I started to comment on one of your earlier posts, that I'd get the boots first and then get the intercooler. Would suck to put in a new intercooler and still have leaky boots.

Yeah I don't even know if my intercooler is all that bad but I assume it's never been changed. Now my boots on the other hand are leaking and crappy.

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