Here's Why the 7.3L Powerstroke is one of the Best Diesel Engines Ever
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I bought 2002 7.3 power stroke new in Dec. O1. Best purchase I've ever made. Today, it runs like a clock, body, and interior in great shape. It has 346000 mi on it and only had to replace the bearings in the turbo and the heater coil. I'm 65yrs old and I'm keeping it until I'm gone.
Me too!
Awesome let me know I'd love to buy it I'm sure it's been taken care of 😂. All jokes aside I hope you live a long prosperous life 😊
My uncle bought a 2003 new he loves it ! He had to do some work to the fuel system from having his sit alot but otherwise great truck! I love my 1999 also got it with 240 it's got 290 now still runs great 17 mpg !
Can I have it when you're gone?
@@javiergarza8626I hope you go before him
It's ashamed they can't leave a good thing alone...
Thank the government and emissions regulations for that but also ford in the end dont want to build reliable vehicles. Just like gm they had a superbly reliable 5.3 that far outlived 250k miles but had to ruin it because it was too reliable
Well, even if the government wasn’t involved the 7.3 would’ve died long ago, it didn’t make power, it also didn’t have the potential to make power without risk of complete failure. That’s where the now 6.7 reigns king in that department, 500hp-1200ft lbs NOT deleted, but once deleted likely to see 600 or more hp stock tune only, and very reliable
@@KDlGG the 7.3 powerstroke needed more valves, it has the fuel and the reliability but 2 valves per cylinder are too restrictive. I wish they had made it like with 4 valves
Its because people started buying more cummins because it made more horsepower... which is the same reason they went away with the idi 7.3... horsepower to try to combat the loss of sales from people wanting a truck with more horsepower... why? Because people dont understand that 7.3 has a boatload of torque, almost 500ftlbs, whereas the cummins even woth more hp has around 400... its akin to the difference between a honda engine and a chevy v8, one has immediate torque not reliant on boost (high static compression) the other is reliant on the boost thus lower torque but higher horsepower. Anyone who ever drove a ford 300 straight six knows that torque is what you want in a ol farmtruck... not horsepower. In reality they really arnt that much different powerwise but having a higher hp number on the sticker is what drove ford to partake in the hp wars.
@@KDlGG first all they can make power the fastest power strokes ever was a 7.3 second the big white sleeper 7.3 claimes to be reliable making 1000hp and 1800 lb-ft of torque
Absolutely loved my 2000 Diesel Excursion, best rig I've ever owned, ever
My 7.3 ex is always doing Better than my 7.3 f350. I believe that’s normal m.
All about the final gear ratio..... excursion is most likely geared more for highway..just spitballing here ...could be completely wrong.
I used to have a coworker big tall volunteer fire fighter with a powerful mustache like Tom Selleck that drove one of those from here in Minnesota too Alaska every year. Did an excursion in his excursion
My parents had a 2000 diesel Excursion too, love, and miss that thing. It’s what I learned to drive in. Could see everything with the big tow mirrors. She was getting pretty tired though. Going over railroad tracks made it feel like it was gonna rattle apart, glow plugs where also going bad. Sucks that the economy killed it off, would be awesome if they brought it back modernized with all the goodies from the newer expeditions, along with the 6.7, and coils in the front just for shits n’ giggles lol.
Still have a 2000 ex with 473k on it
And there’s still hundreds of thousands of them on the road. I miss mine
Daughter has a 99 F350 7.3 with 294,000 miles currently, her first vehicle!!!
There are many with over one million miles plus on them. The older they get the more you realize how good or bad an engine is. This one was great.
I’ve had 3, a f550 7.3 with 900k miles, a f350 dually with 400k and a f250 with 378k most solid engines ever
Not very many 6.4 wonder why 💁
Out of million of truck’s hundreds of thousands that would mean trucks survive very little percentage. There’s nothing more on the street than a gmt800 in the parts of the country people aren’t screwing other people over.
2002 7.3 LOVE IT AND RUNNING ON WVO
I have one of both. 7.3idi and 7.3ps. both have 350k+ miles and turbos, both work every weekend. wouldn't own anything else.
If you had to pick an IDIT or PS for a daily driver which would you pick?
Everyone complains that it's sloww. Well yes how fast do you need to pull a load bigger than the truck. It's like the turtle and the hair. With the 7.3 and the new ones. The 7.3 will always make it to the finish line.
I agree. All you have to do is put it performance tuning chip & exhaust temp probe, & add some high quality diesel fuel ,and you can get 400 horsepower easily, and cheaply( even Without an intercooler). Remember , the 7.3l Is a bigger cubic inch engine than Cummins and duramax as well other modern diesels that produced more horses. Torque is a real thing. So when towing, the larger engine w/ more natural (before boost kicks in) LOW END torque shines, putting less wear on the turbo! 😉😃
@@wannabeetiger exactly. People think that your need 500hp to tow. My dad's old truck pulled everything. I guess people want to feel like they are driveing a car when they are towing. I see people doing 80mph with campers all of the time. It's dumb.
@@nb7466 yep
Ya behind a rollback with a Cummins under the hood.
@@nb7466 you are right, it's one of my pet peeves!
The bug on the windshield is a reflection of a airplane flying by.
Ahh yes the greatest international ever built the 7.3 idi non turbo 300k all original miles (u don't need to worry about the glowplugs) and if you thought Deepwater horizon was bad you should have a look under my truck.
😳🤪😂!!! Here i was, just last night, doing a fresh search within Ol’ YT for info pertaining specifically too the tutorials by both shade-tree &, well-savvied mechanics/technicians alike, of the “how to” to do a proper compression check on a 2000 7.3 DIT… this morning, i see this short in my feed, per YT algorithms. Great little short of Powerstroke’s predecessor histories. I read your comment & yeah, got a good chuckle from your sarcasm per how freakin’ DISGUSTING some of these diesel engines have become over time/use; as is mine, @ 380K miles now! Kind of looks like LeBrea Tar Pits on a hot day. I’ve had &/or worked on a massive variety of different vehicles & engines in general, from nearly every decade from the early 1900’s thru fairly recently made. Of the various car engines i’ve owned &/or worked on, of antique or classic cars/trucks/buses/cranes/forklifts/etc., over my lifetime thus far, having dealt with many caked on layers of leaded-gasoline blow-by oily crud, these diesels still typically exceed these older engines’ filth, hands-down! It’s one thing to attempt cleaning all of it off but, a totally different thing of expecting these to STAY CLEAN! Impossible! Causes me to think of an old quote pertaining to Buick’s of the 40’s thru… the 60’s? Of, “If there are no signs of any liquid leaks on the ground under your Buick, this indicates your car is OUT OF FLUID!” I own TWO ‘55 Buick Super 56R 2dr coupe Rivera’s, both w/factory A/C option… no dust or dirt ever blows out from under those cars, as they’re now basically parked on “paved” lots, that was just dirt when parked! 😂
I have a 2002 e350 ext, 7.3L powerstroke, custom ordered with my dad from new, still got it, 300k km on the clock, still turns over like a charm, lots of power, 17 litre oil change, one of my fave work truck in the fleet
I’m at 317k and still idles smooth
Don't forget to put some Archoil on the 7.3 Powerstroke causes the injector stiction for cold temperatures, like Fall or Winter.
I agree them engines love that stuff
Hot shot secret stiction eliminator problem solved
I drive the semi’s for a living that stuff works.
Or you could just put one quart of atf in the fuel at every refill and save a ton of money by not running overpriced crap with petroleum distillates (aka gasoline) in it.
@Jack Russelle Lewis I've saved over $100k worth of unneeded injector replacements on my customers' vehicles with ATF. Balk all you want. It works.
On Common rail it keeps the injectors clean and adds lubricity to the fuel for the CP3(4) pump. The HUEI engines love ATF in the fuel as well, but also adding a quart of ATF to the crankcase and idling the engine for 20 minutes before changing the oil
Keeps the HPO system o-rings soft and the oil side of the injector clean. Nothing works better on stichon.
@@matthubbard9330 7.3 and 6.0 have oil side sticking which is why archoil is add. Atf or any oil is for fuel side and definitely works
I loved my 99 7.3 PS.
I loved my 1999 1/2 also but the fuel injector control module. Did you send everyone else replace these?
@@davekleiboeker4614 I never had trouble with mine
Same mines running up to 600k miles. Still pulls like an absolute beast
Love the old 6.9l they're dead reliable and super simple to repair. Just bought another.
Except the early ones had a casting flaw and the block cracks between the freeze plugs above the starter
Love my 2000 f350 4x4 7.3...103k and still drives like new
These 7.3s are great. I love mine in my dump truck with the zf6. Runs great, tows great, and hauls great
I'd rather have mechanical injection but either way the 7.3 is a good engine hands down.
It was done for emissions reasons. The IDI turbo had a more restrictive exhaust and detuned injection pump.
well you also can't forget caterpillar because without their heui injector design the Powerstroke would not be possible
Probably the second best diesel engine put in a pickup truck.
The best has been and probably always will be the 5.9 12 Valve Cummins with the Bosch P-7100 fuel pump.
Some people will insist that it is underpowered but actually most of those trucks were geared too tall with a 3:54 gear ratio, switching to 3:73 gears makes a huge difference when pulling heavy loads while still retaining fuel economy and higher speeds than legally allowed.
what about 24v?
I'll be an IDI man to the day I die
7.3 idi turbo
If you know what trucks came with those if you could let me know I’m looking to get a truck just pull the part down to the frame and redo
I love simplicity. Also I want to make it EMP proof.
@@PC_CERTIFIED 93 94 but you could easily put one of the aftermarket turbo kits on any of the idi’s. The 6.9 was arguably the better engine than the 7.3 because it didn’t have issues with thin cylinder wall cavitation so better make sure your coolant is using an additive and up to snuff or the engine will die an early life.
@@PC_CERTIFIED You'd want newer than 88, I got an 88 and the glow plug controllers on the older one's suck (including mine).
@@brytonmassie thanks boss to make my own modifications as in everything electromechanical no computers whatsoever
02’ 7.3 here, 378k on the clock
440000 on my 3.7 ltr. Runs like new
Early 03, almost 300k. Only repair was a dipstick pan leak. Simple, easy fix, oil cooler will be next likely!
My LS LM7 5.3l v8 silverado has 384,467 I'm telling you chevys and Fords had good engines 2004 and lower besides the 5.4l v8
My 7.3 903k 😂😂
Yeah, the "cackle" problem was really fun! Five sets of injectors in 135,000 miles! The first and last Ford in my life!
Regulated return or FRx solves it. Even just putting the AE injector in cylinder 8 is what most everyone does and is the TSB procedure. Sounds like you were getting ripped off and had another issue elsewhere like a bad fuel pump or not enough oil changes.
@@warrenself I didn't elaborate as much as I knew about the problem. I had a '99 model and at that time I was a member of the Ford-Diesel forum started by a fellow (Jason Lester I think) out of Abingdon Virginia. The cackle problem was a HUGE topic back then with Ford saying it was norma etc ect ect. Some owners claimed it didn't exist with a lot of heated argument along the way. Will it DID exist and I had a truck with the problem. It went on for months upon months with many owners experimenting with fixes UNTIL FINALLY a member from Savanah Georgia discovered a major problem. The supply line from the fuel tank was sucking air at the joint fittings and overwhelming the air separation ability at the engine. The excess air was taking out the injectors with number 8 at the top of the list. I'm in Missouri and a man in Jefferson City (I don't recall his name) had designed and built an air separation system for large diesel applications such as tug boats. I went to his shop and he showed me how it worked. It was amazing. It was able to take diesel foam and turn it to clear liquid. I installed a unit on my truck and problem solved. The cackle disappeared and there was a noticeable increase in power. Throttle response was MUCH improved, but I was completely soured against Ford by then and returned to GM. Oh, and I'm a faithful oil changer.👍 And I was the one changing the injectors, in fact, that's what I was doing the morning the twin towers came down. The only thing Ford ever did for me was replace the entire rear end which failed at a mere 3,600 miles.
I used to drive Ford Super Duty tow trucks with the old mechanical injection 7.3 until the Power Stroke came on the market and they had a power band like a 2 stroke Snowmobile
Had the turbo version of the 7.3l big flaw of this engine was the oil pan rotting out.
Yep
Its a shame that their trying to ban every diesel truck and gasoline car.
Diesel trucks are almost banned in California already. Their pushing it so hard in a state that hates trucks so much they only have I think 3 truck stops.
California is hell!
I love my 7.3 but the only thing I don’t like is how slow it is but we gonna change that very soon
I have a 94 IDIT that was an experimental truck that banks was working with, it has one of the strangest turbo setups I have seen, it still sits on the passenger side above the rear glow plug, but this manifold doesn't traditionally run between the engine and firewall, the cross pipe is used in that area and the manifold for the turbo comes off the side of the engine, I had to call banks when I replaced the gaskets because they was a special order, kinda neat, I knew nothing about it until we actually ran the vin and learned a bit of history on it, we used it for years to pull a 42 foot holiday rambler and bought it off a guy in 02 that was letting it sit, itfor sure has been a good old truck.
I had a 1997 F350 with a 7.3 L turbo diesel 350,000 miles in 13 years I got out of that truck with no major repairs
that 7.3 is indestructible
Love my 02 7.3L F-350! 7.3 for life👏🏻
I have a 2003 F250 with 125k miles, Texas truck with no rust and never been wrecked. I only use it to pull my 5th wheel RV, its a tow monster and never lets me down. My son will get it when I'm gone.
The best way to avoid rust on the front portion of your truck frame is to have a 7.3 power stroke, being as it will spray oil everywhere preventing rust.
Mine has zero leaks and its 21 years old.
Light duty trucks. Class 8s are heavy duty
I heard that too. Semi’s are heavy duty. Pick ups were traditionally light duty.
Id like to argue 250s and higher up to 750s are medium duty. Light duty are 150s and smaller.
@@roscoejones374 It's a designation based on GVWR. The DOT and FHWA both publish documentation saying that class 3-6 (minimum of 10,001 lb GVWR) are considered medium duty, although the DOT only seems to consider class 3 trucks as medium duty if they're cab & chassis models (no regular pickups allowed). There are other, non-official sources claiming that classes 4-6 are the only "true" medium duty trucks, which would exclude regular 1-tons from the designation. So there's definitely some grey area, but colloquially most people who are talking about "medium duty" aren't referring to pickups of any sort.
@@DeusTex-Mex i dont know what industry you are in but as a diesel mechanic with a wide range of customers I know personally that gray area is massive.
The 7.3 is the best Diesel engine ever made and the 4.9 6 cylinder was the best gasoline engine ever made and that’s why they are no longer being manufactured
Hurts their profit margins, gotta keep their yachts and jets full of fuel
Maybe best for light trucks, but not best diesel ever made. Any Cat owner will win that argument. And even the cummins ISX would win that argument, and probably the cummins 5.9 12 valve would too. International makes a decent engine , other than their maxxforce failure after buying patent rights from caterpillar, and the powerstrokes they made were very good
@@ridge69Caterpillar made good Class 8 engines for sure, although they’re thirsty and the parts are expensive. The Detroit Series 60 should be on the list of great work Diesels… The International Navistar that made the MaxxForce is not the same International that built the 7.3 and before. It was a different company by then.
@SillyPuddy2012 my point was, the powerstroke, any powerstroke, was and is far from the greatest diesel engine of all time. I have been driving trucks professionally for over 30 years. Even drove an old Ford cabover than had a gasoline engine. No V8 diesel will ever be the best.
@@ridge69V8 is less reliable but more power. I love my 6.4. id rather work on an i6. I will leave most i6 in the dust. Depends on the definition of "greatest"
And they should've kept the 7.3 L turbo diesel power stroke because the omissions were absolutely amazing on it. They were barely any as people would say.
Love my 97 OBS powerstroke. 170k miles.
Automatic?
I'm not a ford guy at all but the 7.3 stock is a solid long last engine as long as it is taken care of. Pretty much with most engines
I’m only the 3rd owner on a 95 7.3 powerstroke and I just barely hit over 300k miles over a week ago
Truck runs like a dream
Still driving a 1994.5 7.3 powerstroke still running like a new one
Don't make as much power but will get the job done and not leave you stranded like the 6.0.
Good tune and she’ll hold her own with the new trucks
I bought my 97 7.3 powerstroke new, it's got 281,000 on it. Still loving it. The powerstroke is as close to a bullet proof engine as you are going to find.
The Fords were crap compared to the Cummins
Oh wow! This is such new knowledge. No one knows about the 7.3. This is amazing. Can’t imagine how many thousands of 7.3 videos you had to watch in order to recap all of this.
And then came the 6.0 powerstroke that was a complete shitshow
@@notsevenfeettall they did. But the 6.0 was so bad Navistar almost ended everything with Ford 😂
@@maniv100actually that was the 6.4 that did that
@@maniv100 the 6.4 was even worse, ended up having the same issues as the 6.0, had more catastrophic problems added on, it was the diesel that was supposed to make amends between navistar and ford but it instead put the final nail in the coffin for their partnership, leading to the ford engineered and manufactured era of the 6.7
@@matthewheld1292 should have just put a Cummins in it 🤣
Absolutely lived my 7.3 ford ,amazing truck
The turbo IDI was actually better and the factory was told to turn the power down so they didn't make the power strokes look bad if you turn up an IDI it has more torque than the power stroke does and it gets better mileage. I run them both I know. Turn that IDI up. it will way out performing powerstroke
Wrong 🤣🤣
@@williamuskoski1385it's not.
This is definitely about as wrong as you could get.
- certified Ford diesel tech
@@georgesrisomsak9650dude. I bet I have worked on more idis than you at this point
@@AwesomeMau5Heads doubt it. Videos or gtfoh.
Certified Ford tech of 13+ years says so.
Pulled a 425,000 mile 7.3 out of my dad's pickup when the chassis was beyond repair, resealed it, dropped it in another chassis, and its now 40,000 down the road from that.
Excellent analysis of the 7.3, this information is hard to find all in one place... 6.0 powerstroke owner scratching my head at why they we backwards in every metric
Those numbers are wild
Liked my 99' 7.3 but I love my 03' 6.0.
Work at ford dealers for years as tech. Now own a 2003 6.0 and 2008 6.4. Love them both these albatrosses….
My 300.000 miles 7.3 Powerstroke was pulling great until the car was scrapped due to rust. Great engine!
I loved mine also but the fuel injector control module. Did you send everyone else replace these?
@@davekleiboeker4614 Nope, but I kept all the modules for some reason.. I still have some in my basement. Was gonna sell them at one point.
I'm not a mechanic but have owned a 96 250 powerstroke. Drove a 97 350 company owned powerstroke and currently own a 93 350 7.3 idi. One thing Ive ALWAYS hated about all of them is they are cold blooded and I've never been a fan of glow plugs. With all that being said, the 93 I recently purchased is my favorite because of its simplicity. It is a pleasure to work on. Everything is EASY. Sure it's no power house, but nowadays I'm in no big hurry to get anywhere fast. With all that being said if the idi goes out I'll replace it with a 12 valve Cummins.
I know what's going on the first thing I noticed with those nice high compression Pistons get her done
Love the power stroke, hate the under valve cover wiring harness that runs the injectors
I've got one of the 275 horse 6 speed trucks it surprises people that its a 7.3 the way it runs
Anyone else notice the spider crawling on the windshield when he turned it to the blue 7.3
I love the 6.9 IDI,,reliable engine,power can be increased and it’s easy to repair,u could repair it in the middle of a field
My only gripe with the 7.3 power stroke are the cups. It’s a great engine. Getting one with a zf5 behind it is great. Wish I never sold mine.
Just replace the injector cups every time you do injectors. Every 100k-150k miles or so
I had a new F350 in '03 with the 7.3 that truck was friggin awesome.
i have a 96 f350 love it
mine is not powered buy a 7.3 tho
I’ve wned my early 99 since 2003. Approaching 400k miles.
Back in the day, our ambulances had the 7.3. A crew ran completely out of oil. All four gallons. We filled it up and off they went. Never had a problem with the 7.3.
Did anybody else see a big ass spider crawling across the truck or was that just me? 😂
I just got a 7.3 van. Love it!
I own both. I'll take the IDI any.
Don't forget the CAT 3126!
Just talking Ford diesels here....There are plenty of better diesels out there
I pull a 13k trl with my f350 dually. I have 318k on it and if i had the time i would love to buy a donor engine and build it and then do a manual swap. Im running 180cc injectors with a low power tune and a 63/70 mm kc300x turbo. It smokes bad but im dealing with hpop codes even though hpop ipr icp were newly installed and no help and injectors at time were 1.5 years old. The scanning hardware and software im being refered to are back ordered so its just my tow rig now so let her smoke. Cold nights here in michigan 1 hit on the key without being plugged in. Love it. My 6.5 was good but hated the cold
I pulled double that with my 96 super duty, 30ft gooseneck and a backhoe on it. 220k miles on it pulled the trailer and tractor it's whole life just about
Worked at international Huntsville in 01 cool process
I have one and it's a work horse!! Still running it pulling everything!!
At 225 hp the 444E International lasted far longer, because they didn't turn them up to 275 hp like Ford.
I have owned 4 7.3 powerstrokes. They are awesome motors, however I do not miss the constant fluid leaks.
If ford brings the 7.3 back they will be the best brand of all time. The 7.3 is a good engine. My grandfather bought one with a Manuel in ‘97 still runs perfectly fine
For a work truck, that high torque is way more important than bringing that hp up any more.
Took a clapped out 03 srw 7.3 over the rockies 5 times in the last 2 years. Saw so many modern trucks broke down. Only had to stop once or twice to cool the transmission. I never let it get close ro red . Like someone else said tortious and the hare. Always gets ya home.
In Australia we got the 7.3 powerstroke till 2006 👍👍
We have a 94 IDI turbo 7.3 and a 2002 PS 7.3. Both run with almost no problems.
I had a '96 F150 in that Indigo color. Love the color, big fan of the OBS trucks.
I just finished replacing the water pump on my early 99 this morning. 300k and going strong!
My. Nephew worked. Pipeline as a. Welder and had a 7.3 and he tuned it and I think in all them years he got stuck only twice his truck is the. Blue Ox. It is semi retired. But still runs
Mechanical is the way to go
73 was an awesome engine. I don’t know why they quit making it. As soon as they get the head bolts to quit pulling through the heads on the 6.7 it’ll probably be pretty good engine too.
We can all thank International for the 7.3
That's why I bought a Dodge Cummins
I just came into a possession of a 99 7.3L powerstroke and it runs like a top. Had to replace the turbo due to the previous owner now really knowing how to install it properly and/or the person who rebuilt it did it for as cheap as possible. But other than that, it’s just been an awesome truck for 207k on the dash
The International engine?
Yes the 6.9 7.3 6.0 6.4 built all by international
The 7.3L IDI Turbo would kick a stock early Powerstroke's butt!!!
I have a 1997 f350 dually, 387,000 on the clock. Been working on slowing restoring it, as it was someone’s work truck up until I bought it. Dented and dirty, but mostly rust free and runs like a top.
I spent 60k COMPLETELY restoring a 2001 f350 7.3 zf6 cclb truck, opposed to spending nearly 90k on todays equivalent I think it was worth it, any issues down the road I’ll be able to fix myself and not be at the mercy of the dealer! With some upgrades truck makes great power and gets great fuel economy for what it is!!
a company I worked for had a couple of these. a 350 chevy out pulled them and got better mileage.
International bought the heui injector from caterpillar
I love mine, my dad has one and so does my father in law.
my 96 had 394k on it before it rotted in half but that engine still cranked right up and ran flawlessly
Reliability is all that’s good about this engine
If you don't have reliability what do you have nothing except for an expense and down time
@@tonydiesel3444 fuck reliability, I want loads of power and angry clanky sounds.
This engine has a cult following don't forget! So that plus reliability I think in my book makes it one of the best diesel engines ever!
@@wannabeetiger 1000lbs and 200hp... enough said. The fact that a 350 chevy makes more power and similar torque athalf the weight while being just as reliable should tell you everything you need to know
@@konnerkramer329 yeah like the Ford 460 made the same power as the 7.3 when both were offered in trucks. Both are awesome engines and I love the 7.3 but I'll be honest, I love newer diesels for a lot of reasons, mainly power and capabilities
My 97 has 318k miles on it, spent its whole life as a farm beater still going strong just needs a clutch and rear main
Was a beast, get the single box. Not the later three box. The three box split out the the injector driver from the main pcm. Went to shit, was replacing an idm's as fast as injector cups. Ill still take a 6.8 or 6.9 though.
Nice truck
Ive had mine for 20yrs
I was selling Ford trucks the past couple years of the 7.3 reign and to make the sale all I had to do was take them on the freeway and floor it 9n the on ramp, it's the equivalent of taking off in a DC10 about 8 G's
Sure miss mine. Would buy another one tomorrow if I could…