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I would tread VERY carefully with it being at a dealer. I've ran out of fingers and toes to count on how many trucks that have been brought in fresh from the lot that needed head gaskets or engines...

Is a reg cab long bed in your search?
 

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I would tread VERY carefully with it being at a dealer. I've ran out of fingers and toes to count on how many trucks that have been brought in fresh from the lot that needed head gaskets or engines...

Is a reg cab long bed in your search?
Anything all the way up to exursion. ....how would you identify needing a head gasket ....doesn't blow smoke dip stick looks clean ,coolant looks clean....
 

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Putting a pressure gauge on the cooling system and seeing how high it builds and how it builds. Not just in dealing with lot trucks, but I have seen alot of 'auction' trucks with drilled out degas bottle caps to fake a good cooling system. People can tamper with thermostats to help the system not build much pressure. I've seen it countless times a truck with bad head gaskets and it gets covered up by one of these methods just to push it off the lot. Not condemning dealers, cause honestly they don't know much, but there is a definite pattern
 

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Being in IL I'm sure it has some rust. But that's a 2011+ bed and an 08-10 tailgate. I'd give the underside of the cab a good look and make sure the cab corners aren't rusted out or filled with bondo
 

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The truck has absolutely no rust I looked everywhere so I'm thinking it might not be a Midwest truck....
 

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I am also entertaining selling my RCLB. it's in the classifieds here. I say entertaining cause I actually LOVE the truck and would hate to see it go, but it's screwing up getting my Camaro done
 

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Try and find one privately owned if you can(as there are plenty of them out there and you'll get out of paying sales taxes) just for a sense of how the truck was maintained by the previous owner.. 6.0s are great motors if well maintained. Ive owned 3 of them and love them.

If you are really considering buying a 6.0 do yourself a HUGE favor and purchase an edge CTS2 or even a SCT Livewire(little more spendy but will allow the addition of custom tuning after you buy the truck) before even test driving another one.. You can pick a CTS2 up for about 375 bucks and it is one of the best portable monitoring tools you can bring to look at a truck and makes for a great set of gauges when you do purchase a truck.

This will allow you to quickly plug into the OBDII port mount the CTS to the windshield and select the PIDS that you want to monitor. The main things are the engine coolant, and oil temps, your FICM voltages. But i just throw in the VGT cycle, icp, battery, and a few others just to check em out while I'm test driving.

Luckily I have one in my 7.3 that i use as gauges and I just remove it and take with me every time I go to look at a truck whether it be a 6.0, or 6.4.


If you google pressure testing 6.0 you'll find a quick method that will allow you to hook up a hose and gauge to the degas bottle and run into the cab to watch the pressures that build while driving and under WOT.
 

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03 6.0 with a 165K from a used car dealer?? There is nothing good about even one of those facts.. If you buy it you will remember my post trust me..
 

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First thing I noticed was the Fischer plow frame which would make me run away. Buddy traded in his '06 CCSB 6.0 that was super clean but head gaskets were shot to a dealer. I know for a fact they didn't fix it, just slapped it on the lot for $20k.

Good luck with your search.
 

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Ha it's the first thing I look for when looking at used trucks. A missing or cut front valance is also a tell tale sign of plow.


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Ya me to, I must have been enamored with the 03, 6.0, high mileage used car dealer overload..
 
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