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- All right, listen up people.
The time has come. We've covered a GM truck.
We've covered a Cummins and now Ford boys and gals.
It's your turn to shine.
Your step up into the limelight,
your chance to dance on the big stage,
and what a better way to kick this one off then by talking
about reliability. I mean,
when it comes to engines specifically, diesels.
Ford has always been known for having some of the
best and most reliable engines on the market.
Heck, look at the 73 power stroke.
Even the GM and Dodge guy swear by em. They ran forever.
They were dependable and they were just damn reliable,
but we're not here to talk about the
iconic 73 Powerstroke today.
Instead today, we're talking about the newer,
younger, sleeker, more stylish,
better looking, lighter weight,
and overall just better performing younger brother power
stroke truck. That's right.
I'm Dustin with custom offsets.
You guys can find me on
Instagram @dusty.co
and today, well today, we're chatting
about how you may want,
a 67 power stroke.
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- Before we get into the nitty-gritty of this fire-breathing
power stroke,
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Anyway, before we get into the almighty 67
power stroke,
we have to roll up the old pedigree
of the power stroke engines.
When it comes to diesel engines,
Ford has certainly had its ups and then it's also had its
downs. For simplicity sake,
we're gonna start here in 1994, with the introduction
of the iconic 73 power stroke. Now, listen,
I know that there was a 73 IDI before then,
but we're not even going to touch on that one today because,
well, there's already a lot to cover here.
On a relevant note, drop a comment down below.
If you'd like to see us make a video on all the power stroke
engines and the key differences between them,
because there's like, nine of them.
I think, or six of them or, there's a lot.
Okay, so introduced in 1994,
the 73 power stroke was the first Ford diesel engine to
offer an electronic fuel injection system, which
allowed a much higher fuel rail
pressure than its predecessor.
Well again,
I don't want to spend the entirety of today's video on the
73, the case must still be made that for a long time,
Ford pretty much owned the diesel engine game.
Sure, Cummins had the 12th valve, it was a great engine.
It was super reliable,
but ask anyone what the iconic diesel engine of the 90's
was, and they're going to tell you
it's the 73 power stroke.
Mostly because pretty much everyone has a story of either
their dad or grandpa or uncle or cousin or someone having a
73, and it running up to like half a million miles.
Heck there's even a few select stories of these engines.
And these trucks clocking over a million miles!
Which is fricking insane when it comes to a pickup truck!
Like that just doesn't happen.
But much like half of the taco bell menu, all good things,
unfortunately must come to an end.
And so they did.
Facing stricter emissions regulations.
Ford needed to find a way to be competitive in the new
market as the 73 well, as reliable as it was
definitely wasn't the most fuel efficient truck
that was on the market at the time.
Fords, solution to this was the six liter power stroke,
which was introduced midway through the 2003 model year.
While it was a great idea by design,
kind of, the six liter
was plagued with all sorts of issues.
Most notably, catastrophic head gasket failure,
due to a plug oil cooler, which would then like flash boil,
coolant into the EGR valve,
which would fail and it would die.
It was a bad deal, it was a bad deal.
And I can say that because I had one right?
For this reason the six liter Powerstroke
was only made a few years, and it would
eventually be replaced by the new 64,
which solved some of the six liter issues. However,
it's still had enough issues of its own to only be in
production for a few short years.
So it's 2011 at this point, right?
And in just eight short years,
Florida's effectively gone from standing on the podium with
like a gold or a silver hanging around its neck to like, ah,
DNF in the diesel truck game with the 6064.
Like it was not good.
Things looked pretty rough for the old FOMO co at this
point, but never fear, there's still hope.
Introduced in 2011, is the Belle of the ball
for today's video.
The 6.7 liter turbocharged power stroke diesel engine.
That's just fun to say, well,
Ford made a ton of changes to this truck.
Perhaps the biggest change that was made was that for the
very first time ever Ford was making their own diesel
engines in house,
as opposed to working with Navistar international,
like they had for the last 30 years.
Either way, this new engine featured
a variable geometry turbo,
as well as an air to water intercooler,
which was pretty uncommon at the time,
but it wasn't all rainbows and unicorns with the whole new
power stroke thing, right?
This first generation 67, was produced
for only three short years in true Ford fashion.
While the first generation 67's were a novel idea.
They were riddled with issues,
including a major problem with the diesel emission system.
I mean, we're not really surprised here, right?
It's the first rendition that Ford took at
making a diesel engine in house.
So naturally we expected some issues.
Word on the street is
that these first generation 67's had some issues
with their NOx sensors,
which would commonly throw these trucks into limp mode,
leaving you with no boost,
half the fuel, and a check engine light, which sucks.
While Ford was onto something big
at this point in time.
Things still didn't look great for the blue oval.
To make matters worse, shortly after they released
the 67 power stroke.
GM also rolled out their LML Duramax.
When GM did this,
they published their horsepower and torque ratings like
every truck manufacturer does.
And unfortunately it was higher than the Powerstroke by a
little bit, not willing to settle for second place here.
Ford immediately pushed out a bulletin to all dealers and
encouraged all of their customers to bring their brand new
trucks back to the dealer free of charge
for a reflash of the PCM.
This new reflash would gain you an additional 10 horsepower
and 65 foot pounds of torque,
which was enough to top the LML and put the Ford back at the
top of the power leaderboard.
So maybe they weren't liable,
but at least they made the most power right?
Sure.
Listen.
I know I talk about this a lot,
but can we just take a moment and talk about the freaking
fantastic sounds that these turbos make?
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Seriously, when it comes to the sweetest sounds
in the world,
there are a few that compete with the old,
so fantastic sound of a variable geometry turbo.
For the 67's particular case.
Ford would choose the Garret GT 32 SST
variable geometry turbo,
which is unique in it's own way because it had not one, but
two compressor wheels that actually sit back to back in the
housing, it's kind of a unique design.
Well, it did a great job.
The GT 32 SST was actually a little undersized for the
67 powerstroke and later would be replaced
by a bigger, better, turbo.
Which is actually the perfect segue for us to talk about how
in 2015, Ford would increase the horsepower output
on their 67 powerstrokes.
From 400 horsepower, to 440 horsepower.
This would be in part because Ford decided to replace the
restrictive, smaller turbo that we just talked about
with the Garrett GT 37.
Which was quite a bit larger than the previous GT 32's.
This new, bigger turbo would peak somewhere
near 30 PSI of boost, giving you more spool,
for more horsepower.
In 2017, Ford did perhaps one of the biggest
controversial changes they've ever made in
their entire existence ever.
They decided to take the stock steel bodies of their super
duty pickups and turn it up just a couple, two,
three notches.
For those of you who remember the 2017 model year brought
with it, the all aluminum body!
Dubbed the Illuma duty.
These trucks would set the world on fire causing tons of
controversy as consumers believe that aluminum could not be
as strong as steel and surely, must be significantly more
costly to repair in the event of an accident.
Well, this has proven to be false
over the years, Ford definitely
made some waves in the market at the time.
With all of that stuff being said, though,
why would you want a 67 power stroke in 2021?
Well, for starters,
they're still a relatively new truck,
which means that both the exterior and the interior are
still going to be current.
They look great leveled or lifted or
even reversed leveled and even slam.
They just look great all the time.
And there's tons of parts available for them through all
sorts of manufacturers. If lift gets at your thing,
good news,
because these are solid actual trucks, right?
Which means that you can get any size lift that you want,
including a 14 inch lift kit made by Wicked manufacturing.
Or you can go the adjustable route with companies like
Elderman, who makes an air ride kit or any level who's gonna
make a hydraulic lift kit.
Better yet, because Ford has always realized that, you know,
wheel wells should be round, much like the tires that go
in and
- Ah get it Dustin.
- Yeah, I get, listen.
It, I'm not happy about it.
Okay. It just,
I don't know why GM decided they wanted square wheels.
We actually have a video on that. You can check it out.
Lawson did a great job,
but I'm not going to talk about it today. So anyway,
because our wheels are round,
you can stuff a pretty aggressive tire in there
without too many issues. Personally,
I know here, we've stuffed a 3512 and a half R20 on a
nine wide, on a stock truck.
Just tucked it in there,
and it fit, which is wild to me.
You go up just a few inches of lift.
You can stuff a 37 in there without
a lot of issues or go really wide.
And again, you're not gonna rub.
It really is quite awesome if you're looking to get a bigger
wheel and tire in there.
So with all of that being said, though,
what do you guys think about the 67 power strokes?
Would you own one? or are they one that
you would stay away from?
Let us know down in the comments section below.
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With that, I'm Dustin.
With custom offsets.
We'll see you guys on the next one.
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