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Message: [QUOTE="me2, post: 493518, member: 3825"] Want the truth about the 6.4 in my truck ? The up pipes are leaking. Again. Nothing like raw diesel fumes in the cab in the morning. Yum. The first owner had them done once already under warranty. My truck is now out of warranty. Can they be fixed without pulling the cab ? Its impossible to drive the &^*! thing in a snowstorm without plugging the air filter. Nothing like climbing a mountain pass in a storm with half power. Great for ski trips, driving in the truck lane with the 4 way flashers on with the chained up highway tractors. Something in the EGR system either plugged or stuck the other day. I was driving along and pulled over to the side of the road to take a cell phone call. By the end of the call the engine was loping like hell and the CEL was on. It wasn't knocking or smoking so I limped back home at about 20 MPH. When I started it the next day, it ran perfect. I've put on a couple thousand miles since then, but I don't trust it. Yesterday about 300 miles from home it wouldn't shift into OD. Not sure if it was an engine or transmission issue. It did it for about 10 miles. 2400 RPM at 65 MPH, no shiftie. I pulled over, cycled the key on/off and went back out onto the highway and its worked fine ever since. Cue the Twighlight Zone theme music. And now that its gotten colder, about twice a week I get drivers passing me shaking their fist. When I look back I see a huge cloud of blue/white smoke. This truck got a new EGR valve and sensors in March and a complete new fuel system in April. All this with less than 120K on it. And its not like its gotten babied or it sits around. I put over 30,000 miles on it in the last year, almost all of them highway miles and a good portion pulling a big trailer. This might be your idea of a great diesel engine, but I think it sucks. And I certainly don't want to work on the friggin thing. So out it goes. Good riddance. [/QUOTE]