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Anyone else have this truck?  I just bought it last December with 161,000 miles on it. I must say I’m very disappointed with it. It all started with a broken leaf spring coming apart on me which took out the speed sensor. Then the service four wheel drive came on and took a few days to finally shift back in to two wheel.  Then I had the lifter in the number one cylinder stuck. I just got it back yesterday and today the service battery charging system came up. The tires are shot but with everything else happening I’ve had to put off replacing em. So far it’s been a $10,000 nightmare

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Has anyone bought the AFM disable devise to stay in 8 cyl? I figure the $180 for it is a lot cheaper than the $1220 it cost me for the stuck lifter

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I had a 2009 vortex max 6.0, same exact truck except the year model, that I bought brand new and just sold earlier this year. It only had 82k miles on it when I sold it but more than half it’s like was spent with an 8” lift, 35s, 4.88 gears, and a custom tune by Blackbear Performance. I also towed a 9k lb camper for roughly 3-4K of those miles. The only things I had to do in the 10 years I had it were replace the battery, replace the front wheel bearing(most likely due to the 35” mud tires on 10” wide offset wheels), and I replace the oil pressure sensor a few months before I sold it. So I was very pleased with the one I had.

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Anyone else have this truck?  I just bought it last December with 161,000 miles on it. I must say I’m very disappointed with it. It all started with a broken leaf spring coming apart on me which took out the speed sensor. Then the service four wheel drive came on and took a few days to finally shift back in to two wheel.  Then I had the lifter in the number one cylinder stuck. I just got it back yesterday and today the service battery charging system came up. The tires are shot but with everything else happening I’ve had to put off replacing em. So far it’s been a $10,000 nightmare

 

Bummer. Sounds like previous owner(s) didn’t maintain or treat it well?

 

I’d pull a valve cover off and if it’s full of sludge then get rid of it. If it’s clean, then it’s had regular oil changes.

 

I have the range device and it works great. Other forum members have had AFM lifter fail even when using afm disable device. Some have used afm for nearly 200k and have had no problems.

 

If there is a lot of oil deposits and sludge then it’s a ticking time bomb.

 

Service battery could be failing batt (get it load tested) or bad battery terminal connections or bad cables (high resistance in battery cable).

 

The half ton vortec max should run strong and put you back in the seat as it is tuned more towards power vs the detuned 2500 6.0

 

Good luck and keep us posted.

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with 160,000 miles on it, you are at that stage where it'll nickle and dime you like crazy.  Same with any other vehicle.

 

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