Haoleguy
Platinum Member
Did your wife get a finder's fee? She deserves one for pulling you out into public........Cheers, Gary
Also if you keep it to the 160-180,000 mi mark be ready for a few big repair bills and then be good till almost 500,000 if properly maintained. The 7.3 has a few issues that tend to pop up around that time. But otherwise very reliable and strong.
I would wonder about the excessive rust.
I live here too (Florida)......
That much rust makes me wonder.
Certain time periods of the 7.3 after they added the turbo result in head gaskets, timing chains, and a few other issues that were mostly resolved when ford updated parts. If you had work done more recently that those items were replaced/repaired anyway you wouldn't notice. I made it to 180,000 before my head gasket blew and at 183,000 my timing chain decided to give up. Good engine, teething issues after some updates to it. If it is newer than about 2001 MY you should be good. If the engine has been rebuilt or replaced you're good. Just a really high failure rate that is fixable.
I have the first version of the psd that they pretty much just slapped a turbo on at the factory and changed a few parts to accommodate. .