i would start with head gaskets and go from there

 

Well the parts are scheduled for delivery today, but I haven't ordered the headgaskets yet. I'm not going back with the factory gaskets and I'm strongly leaning towards the "Black Onyx" gaskets. Anybody ever used these? In the mean time I'm putting my deep surgery gown on.

 

The stock gaskets are a good gasket. The black onyx are essentially stock gaskets with a special coating on them. You can also get the Victor Reinz gaskets, which are basically the black onyx, but at a MUCH lower cost.

 

Ordered some yesterday out of Tennessee. Taking my time on tear down. Hood is off, by myself. No damage to fenders or other parts, but had to repair my finger after trying to balance hood over fender, but that's another story. I can already see this is going to be like the "Nightmare on Elm Street".

 

It's not that bad just take your time and pay attention, and every once in a while you gotta put your beer down for a minute and use both hands

 

Put my beer down? Isn't that a sin? Yeah your right. I'm about to head into my Shop and continue tearing things off the top of the engine; Alternator, turbo and other incidental goodies... Once clear, pull the intake and start looking at injectors and valve cover removal. Oops forgot, put beer down... Man I can see it's gonna be tough pulling those heads with cab still intact. I'll figure it out. I have a cutting torch and I'm not afraid to use it.

 

Everything on top of the engine is a cake walk until you get to the turbo, it's alot heavier than it looks. As for the heads, if you like your back i'd suggest having someone help you lift them or using some sort of hoist. As for the room around the heads i hear you can remove the front cab bolts and loosen the back ones and jack up the front a bit and put a block of wood under it. I've never tried it just heard of people doing it.

 

Thanks for the insight. My son has an engine hoist and I'll figure out a way to rig it to pull the heads and install. Clearance on the right side is the obvious issue that I can see now. Heater core maybe in the way...

 

passenger side is a PITA. Drivers side you will have the bolt closest to the fender and the firewall will hit the firewall, most just peel back the insulation and bend the firewall in with a hammer for clearance. You will have to have the A/C taken care of. It's easiest to remove the inner fender liners too, and the wheels, you can go right into the engine bay from the outside by the fender and stand right next to the head to lift it straight up. You will want someone there to help you get it out of the truck though, or use that engine lift. I think the heads are around 100lbs by themselves. Turbo isn't terrible, but it aint light either. Also I believe someone made or sold some brackets specifically for using an engine hoist to get 6.0 heads out.... they were for the heads specifically I remember.

Take pics...

 

NEWS FLASH: There is more friggin metric nuts and bolts on this truck then Standard. Are you certain Ford U.S. built this or was it built in Korea? Hood, Alternator power wire and a couple of other asses. 10 mm.

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Turbo is out and more metric bolts (10mm).... I'm out for a beer. Next, prepping for intake removal.