Hi, Pete, and thanks for the input....

A friend recently replaced his old Perkins 4.108 with a new CAT (somewhere
around 50-70hp) in his Mason 43. He says he's got about $15k into it and
has done nearly all labor himself., but did a very thorough and nice job
of
it (new muffler, all hoses, engine controls, panel, etc.)

I'm not sure I'd want to repower with a Cat - I have some concern about
parts and service in the third world. Of course, once it's new, the
likelihood of needing such stuff goes down significantly :{))


I've got estimates on both rebuilding, or replacing my Perkins 4.154 with
a
re-manufactured engine (w/ exchange for the old one). Both around
$4500-5000 not including removal/installation costs or freight
(significant
if not local). The re-man. engines don't come with the marinizing stuff
(you have to use you old or supply new alternator, raw water pump, heat
exchanger, engine mounts, etc.), and the same is essentially true for
rebuilt. The rebuild cost assumed that the injection pump and major
components (i.e. crankshaft) were in good shape.

Why would you rebuild yours, vs using a reman, if you have to do all the
disassembly of the other components, too, when, by inference, the rebuild
came with all renewed parts (injector pump, any moving parts new or
rebuilt)?

However, the rebuilt engine costs are encouraging, as I don't expect new
crate engines would have any of that hang-on stuff, either, so it seems
likely that new vs rebuilt might be double the cost, at the same labor costs
for the add-ons, and the R&R costs?

Thanks again for the input.

L8R

Skip and Lydia


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