This actually made sense. When I told my wife I wanted to make my truck bullet proof, she was like why? Who is shooting at you? 🤦🏻♂️ so thanks for the break down.
Our 2003 6.0 has Bullet Proof parts installed by Deisels and more we have Remote oil cooler, EGR, Water Pump, Injectors, it's runs great . We could not have made a better choice we are soon adding FICM from Bullet Proof as well .
Congrats you made a 6.0 powerstroke function like a 7.3. Might have cost less to just get a 7.3 but I understand why one would want a 6.0, whatever works
@@jacobryan4569some people want a truck that can actually get up and go bud. You’ll spend the same amount on a 7.3 just to get it close to being as powerful as a tuned 6.0🤣 to each their own I guess
I have a 2006 6.0 I had bullet proofed the diesel by having the EGR cooler, water pump and oil cool replaced with the original head studs still in the truck and I’ve had no issues the engine runs cool didn’t have any issues before it was just preventive maintenance bought the truck in 2015. It’s now September 2023 still runs great!
Bulletproof diesel truck means that you do all this work to it and no matter what you do it can’t and won’t fail. Translating to an ever lasting truck. Or at least that’s what Cletus and crew think it means 😅
Agreed. That’s why I appreciate Bill Hewitt even more for using the term “dealerproof” in regards to just addressing the shortcomings of a 6 liter truck.
I'm looking at buying an 05 f250 that apparently has been bulletproofed and this really helped me understand what it meant. Also said it has an ipr filtration system and a few other things done to it. Good buy?
kinda new to the diesel community, thinking about getting a diesel soon and would like to know if making it "bullet proof" would make the truck last longer? also thinking about straight piping and deleting the exhaust to "roll coal" but also use it to learn more about the truck
Putting in all those upgraded parts won't keep the 6.0 PSD form dying. All it takes is for the needle bearing from the roller lifters to came apart and your 6.0 is a giant paper weight. That is what happen to my 6.0, for all the upgrade parts didn't save it from that and there's no fix for those roller lifters.
I always thought "Bulletproof" meant you've done the work to the vehicles engine/drivetrains weakest points and thus made it as reliable as it could ever be. From upgrading internals to fuel and oil filtration and cooling. Bulletproof just holds water in that way to me. I have a 6.4 L Powerstroke "bulletproofed" the whole top end with some short block (bored 20 thousandths mahle race pistons with quarter inch larger fuel bowls arp studs fass titanium fuel filtration s&b cold intake deleted EGR new cam bearings rod bearings mains seals and the gaskets) but not the DPF and I ended up roasting my crank shaft and burned out my line hone. When we took the engine apart. The top end was virtually new even after 24k of abuse in the 7 months I had the build with stock emissions and regeneration still happening. Learned a valuable and hard and expensive lesson. Redid everything with a 4" straight pipe and upgraded EGR delete (also took the time to rebuild my turbos with billet cartridges from spool logic) same top end and I can confidently say Bulletproofing is POSSIBLE of any vehicle. But you just don't know what you don't know.
I have their egr cooler and remote oil cooler. I tow heavy but without a tune so headstuds weren’t necessary. Also , my mechanic didn’t want to put the bulletproof water pump on. I had 240k on the oem so he talked me into that. Apparently he had to remove a lot of them because they leaked so he went back to the oem and no problems. I only replaced the water pump because it had 240k on it and the mileage was starting to make me nervous.
ive always known that the term comes from the company's products but i've always just used and understood it to mean a diesel that has all the preventative, reliability upgrades and such
The term existed long before either that company, or certain unnamed Floridian RU-vidrs, I know the term has been in use since the '70s, I believe an International Harvester ad from the early '70s was the oldest place I've seen it used, but it is a good name for an aftermarket parts supplier.
I’d say a remote oil cooler isn’t a necessity either. A healthy oil cooler in the oem location is just fine as long as you do regular maintenance and run the correct coolant. A remote oil cooler just makes it easier to change if/when it clogs up.
I don't think "bulletproof" is branded that way. I remember the older guys calling Chrysler slant-sixes and AMC straight-sixes, and even an old hit and miss water pump that was 60 years old, "bulletproof" in the early 90s, before the company existed. It's just a common adjective to describe an engine that can run under extreme conditions of stress, wear, and/or damage.
@@joel.ha. they did fix it but caused a different problem, but the pump doesn’t fit unless you change a bunch of things in the valley, I have never tried it because the upgraded pump doesn’t have any problems, the 04.5 and up has the high pressure discharge fitting that blows out and breaks the back of the valley and that makes a big job, there’s an upgrade for that and the plug ball that blows out as well, if you have a 04 and down it’s critical that you get the upgraded pump when you change it, and if you have an 03 and down you need to change the icp sensor to the 04 and up sensor if you ever have the turbo out, that sensor is behind the ipr valve and it is a bastard to do from the bottom and it leaks internally and causes no start issues, I upgraded the valley on my 03 to the 04 style because the 03 has cross over lines that can give trouble, but its not a common problem with most of them, i just had mine apart so I changed it all out
@henryhenry3832 oh damn good to know, thank you. I just bought an 03 with low miles so I got my work cut out for me. I saved your comment for reference in the near future
@@joel.ha. one more bit of advice I would give you for the 6.0 is run a 0w-30 full synthetic, don’t run a 40 weight, they run rough if you use a 40, and I always use the hotshot stiction eliminator, it a great friction modifier and will help the lifer issue they all have
Right on they make excellent parts for the problems. The ford has if they know what there doing then u would buy there parts and fix the problem instead of bad mouthing someone
So many ppl think studding and deleting means it's "bullet proofed"😂 everything on my truck is bullet proof and I drive it like it's a go kart not one problem
Pretty sure a diesel works best / most efficient at WOT or close to full throttle about 20% more efficient at full throttle Vs a gas or electric that likes less throttle, the whole point of a diesel is efficiency/ low rpm power, if it had a bigger engine it would be less efficient
Yeah the term gets thrown around too loosely I've seen so many people pull out head bolts one at a time in thread in Chinese head studs and call it bulletproofed That's why when I was looking for a truck every ad I seen that term I clicked back out of it. Ended up buying one with a blown motor and just building it myself
The problem with "bulletproof" is that you really need to see everything to confirm it actually is. Many resell these trucks and state they are, but have no photos or paperwork to prove that.
The 6.7l powerstroke is better by comparison and is not engineered and built by navistar/international rather it is engineered and built in house by ford, 6.7l still will never hold a candle to the 7.3l powerstroke but it’s a good modern happy median for someone that can’t find or dosen’t desire the 7.3l
Bulletproof to me was always replace the shit headbolts with ARP studs a thicker head gasket and the heads decked to make up for the gasket.. that’s a bulletproof right there… anything else is asking for their aluminum squish box to grenade itself
I've built 6.0s for both drag and sled and I've never had a stock bottom end fail up to 1200hp. As long as the top end is built appropriately, 6.0 is a tank
Well to be completely honest if navistar/international would’ve just engineered and built the engine properly “bulletproofing” wouldn’t be a normal thing to look for in a 6.0l powerstroke 🤯 which is why i’ll just choose to avoid them as well as the other 6.4l disaster
To be even more completely honest, the other diesels have issues too. I know your brother's uncle's sister named Trevor's Cummins made it to 1million miles on old oil and piss... but the plural of anecdote isn't data.
@@BuyCrosscut yeah, issues that can be resolved without throwing 10 grand at a truck that your probably ripping people off for 10 grand 😂 nice try spreading your misinformation
@@BuyCrosscut cummins only ever had 1 genuinely bad engine compared to the two bad powerstroke diesels navistar made for ford before they decided to make the smart move and dump them all together and make their own (6.7l) diesel the later engine out of those two being progressively worse then the other (6.4l), but keep bootlicking for navistar comparing major issues with the 6.0l and at this point the 6.4l powerstroke to just regular common issues that can be fixed for cheaper on any other diesel😂
Just because you file a patent on a part, it doesn't give you the power to control others speach. In common parlance i would suspect a "bullet proof 6.0" referse to a 6.0 with head studs, EGR delete, new oil cooler with an accompanying coolant filter, and updated HPOP and fittings. Its still very subjective but thats typically the case with anything.
I have made a lot of money working on 6.0 power strokes I every customer I have had come with a 6.0 I show them what’s wrong they say ok do it I had a 03 f250 come in yesterday for a alignment I get it on the rack shake it down passenger side upper and lower ball joint were shot he said go ahead and do it and do the driver side to there going to go bad do all 4 call me when it’s done I said ok
@@BuyCrosscut I haven't run across that person yet. My 7.3 had 450,000 miles on it pulling a 15k trailer for 90% of those miles. I sold it when I quit racing and it's still going at 600k
The remote oil cooler is sht. I have measured eot vs ect no thanks. There is a reason water to oil coolers rule with OEM's they work. Contamination is the problem. Technicians that cannot visualize and customers that don't realize these are "light duty" engines and do not follow proper maintenance are the problems. We need to make a updated manual for the 6.0 but you know customers never read them anyway.
Head studs aren’t necessary unless you’re really pushing it towing, or throwing some big power mods on. Even then, I know plenty of guys pushing over 500hp with stock head bolts. And I know a few guys with over 400k miles on stock head bolts, egr delete, and a tow tune.
Don’t waste your time bro , idiots are idiots ! We diesel lovers know what that means , better components that fail from factory made better to last , hence the word bulletproof . RU-vid mechanics must be ignored lol 😂
Why should we have to be building a Ford all over again anyway! I tried it I sold it and now drive a 2013 RAM 3500 Dually 6.7 with a Asian transmission. Not a single necessary delete nor fix! I will have upgraded brakes put on this front and rear so that it stops better or you can ask for a truck to pull any better than this one does he still get excellent fuel economy for a truck this size.
Why bastardize “Cleatus And The Friend” who tf cares. Who even is that. Ignore negative people. The bottom line is this, it doesn’t matter what parts you put in your 6.0 it still sucks. Sure a few people will get lucky but when you have Cummins engines doing a million miles and powerstroke engines that can’t make it 200k without $15k in upgrades it’s a crap engine. Period. Who cares what Cletus and the friends say.
" Ignore negative people." and same guy " it still sucks" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 And first guy ever to be triggered by a reference to Cletus. Go find a safe space somewhere else.
How bout a big pass on the 6.0 😂😂 junk from the beginning and end of the 6.4 6.7 saves fomoco from bankruptcy and now trucks are so much people think stepping backwards is a good idea ? This really is why I own a 7.3 to save myself the headache and hassle and a butload of money 😂
@BuyCrosscut truth is truth. I own a few and work on them daily. If you leave them alone and use them how ford design them, they are fine. The problem with all modern day diesel engines is the owners, not the engines. That can be said for all makes and models.
@@bigcountry9210 if that was the case then the 6.0l wouldn’t have had a class action lawsuit so early on most of which were from first owner farmers and businesses who lost so much money from unplanned downtime from these trucks constantly being in the diesel shop. 2nd and 3rd owner kids with daddy’s money wouldn’t have been taken as seriously
