The Great Oz
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We love ours.....so far its been a great truck. Time to dump it?
Mebbe. According to a local dealer service writer the engines are known to fail as early as 50,000 miles. He said they decided to handle pollution control the way they did with gas engines in the mid-70's, by rerouting pollutants back through the engine for a second burn. This destroys the turbos, gunks up injectors and valves and eventually the carbon build-up scars the cylinders.
If you like the truck buy a couple of crate motors as spares (they might be cheap!) but avoid looking up LCF problems or joining in the class action lawsuit.