It’s Truckmania time again! For yet another year, California was able to host its all-truck event at Sacramento Raceway, one of Northern California’s premier tracks. The premise of Truckmania is simple: if it has got a bed….you’re in. What you do with your truck while you are there is your choice, but there are a host of events to choose from. There’s an enormous show n’ shine, a drag race, a donut pit, a burnout contest, a tough truck competition, and a sled pull that wraps up late into the night.
Rex Stineman built one Texas-sized Ram 2500, but that’s no surprise to us. Rex is no stranger to the lifted-truck scene. He has previously owned just about every make and model there is, and he purchased his latest creation with dreams of making it to SEMA one day. The prospect of attending SEMA for the first time gave Rex the itch to build his Dodge. And wouldn’t you know it, his dream came true.
“Originally the Ford came from Texas to Michigan for a transmission swap,” jokes truck builder Gerry Hilder. “It got the nickname ‘The Texas Snowball’ for what happened next.” You see, when the classic pickup made the trip North, the build team noticed a little rust. Then, they ran across a good deal on a P-pump to replace the VE pump that was on the truck. As they say, one thing led to another, and before owner Jason Boatwright and good buddy Gerry knew it, the body was off, and the frame was getting sand blasted.
Jordan O’Krinsky’s Big, Red, Extreme 2018 Ford F-250
Since Extreme Offroad & Performance launched in 2007, they’ve turned out thousands of custom builds, dozens of which have graced magazine covers. You can find their work featured throughout the United States and overseas and, every year, at the SEMA Show. For 2018, the team aimed to build one “extreme” F-250 to represent their company, and that truck belongs to Jordan O’Krinsky, the vice president of Extreme Offroad & Performance.
This Cummins powered Chevy C10 bodied Ford F250 chassis lifted 4×4 creation took Trevor Lima, of Diesel Performance Specialties, over three-years to build. He finished it just in time for SEMA 2018. It set him back a $150,000 to realize this dream build. Lima has been in the industry for over six-years and created some impressive builds over that time. Here’s one of our hands-down favorites.
Powerful, yes. Reliable, no. You can virtually point to any component on the 6.0L other than its rotating assembly and associate some form of poor engineering or premature failure with it. To be fair, some 6.0L’s do go the distance, but it’s very rare to find one with a quarter-million miles on the clock and no history of at least some sort of significant repair.Here, we’ll walk you through all of the 6.0L’s common failure points, starting with the most prevalent offenders.
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