No pics, but I'm currently rebuilding a 3208T CAT that was run with low oil. In this case the customer knew about the leak, and had been keeping it checked regularly for a good while. Then, one afternoon, he got in a hurry, and forgot to check it. I believe he ran it for about 15 minutes, before it seized. His machine died blocking his loading dock, and it is the only large machine he had to unload scrap. Because we had no information on the engine due to it being a reman, and the fact no one would accept a seized engine as a core, rebuilding was about the only option available.
It trashed 4 rods, and the crank, all of which had to be replaced. The new crank ran him right around $1700. I don't know about the rods. The block had to be bored and sleeved because it was worn beyond just going oversize.
I imagine his final cost for this 'ooops' will run him around $14,000+. Thing is he has no choice as another machine would run in the hundreds of thousands.
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