Beautiful truck. Here's mine I picked in May. I've made a few mods to my 6.0 PSD to avoid any potential issues. If you haven't done your home work on the 6.0 you need to read up at
www.powerstroke.org. At a minimum, you need to get a device that plugs into your OBDII port (I got an Edge Insight) so you can monitor your Engine Coolant Temp and Engine Oil Temperature. You need to monitor the difference between the two. A delta of 15 degrees or greater indicates a clogging EGR cooler. Clogged EGR coolers cause all the nightmares you hear about with the 6.0. You can unplug your EGR valve for now. Do the research. Head studs are not necessary and neither is the 5k in additional funds for a reliable 6.0 PSD. Good luck.
actually the cost of doing the EGR/ oil cooler delete, along with the rest of the bulletproofing will cost you $5,000 if you have it done at a professional shop. Head studs are recommended due to the fewer amount of headbolts that the 6.0's have. 6.0's do like to flip head gaskets, so you might as well do the studs when they get changed out. FICM's are picky. make sure you replace the fuel spring with the blue one. upgrade to 6.4 banjo's. I have been around the Powerstroke community for quite a bit and am very familiar with the 6.0, I am actually in the process of picking up my 6.0 in a few weeks.
2003 F350 6.0, It is studded, and deleted, SCT X3 w/TSD custom tunes, Insight CTS w/EAS egt and Turbo Timer, Herculese 100 FICM tune by Bill at PHP, 6.4 banjos, blue springs, coolant filter, straight pipe dual exhaust, has a Mad Turbo Werks stage 2 turbo, S&B CAI, GoGo Solenoid, 325/65/18 Cooper STT's, 18" Black XD Monsters and a few other things. It put down 430 RWHP and 913 rwtorque before the stage2 turbo. Needs new tunes and new sticks and I will be north of 500rwhp. once we do the new sticks and tunes, i will also throw on some meth.