wesley_jones•1mo agoProlific Poster

Changed my tune on those aftermarket fuel filters for the 6.7 Powerstroke

Honestly, my buddy Jake kept telling me to stick with Motorcraft filters on my personal truck, but I figured the cheaper ones from the parts store were fine. I put a set on last fall, and by spring I was chasing a rough idle and losing power on hills. Took it to the shop and they found the paper element had collapsed and was sending junk downstream. Cost me about $300 in diagnostics and the right filters to fix it. Anyone else get burned trying to save a few bucks on filters?

4 comments

4 Comments

nguyen.lily1mo ago

Guess that's the expensive way to learn the lesson about cheap parts.

davidyoung1mo ago

Depends on what broke, sometimes cheap is fine.

olivia_moore5d ago

When you say "sometimes cheap is fine", what kind of parts are you actually thinking of?

joel_clark371mo ago

Oh man, been there. I tried a cheap belt for my car once and it snapped in a week. Ended up getting the good one and it's been fine for years.