Serious question, why is everyone so quick to blame the high pressure oil pump on a 6.0?

Had a truck come in last Tuesday, customer said it was a classic 6.0 Powerstroke no-start. Everyone in the shop, including the foreman, immediately said 'HPOP, bet you twenty bucks.' I said let's check the basics first. Hooked up the scanner, saw ICP was good, but the FICM sync was dropping out. Traced it back to a chafed wiring harness right by the valve cover. Fixed the rub-through with some loom and tape, truck fired right up. Cost the guy forty bucks for diag and the repair, not the two grand for a pump and labor. I get that the HPOP is a weak spot, but jumping straight to it feels lazy. It's like we forget how to actually diagnose things sometimes. Anyone else get tired of just throwing the common fix at a problem without checking?

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grace_fox32mo ago

Honestly, that's the most satisfying kind of fix right there.

nina_hall2mo ago

Sometimes a quick fix just papers over the real problem, grace_fox3. It feels good now but might not last. A deeper solution is usually more work but way better in the end.