Re: Rebuilding diesels

Posted by kyhayman on August 31, 2004 at 20:45:18 from (152.163.253.97):

In Reply to: Rebuilding diesels posted by Ken Macfarlane on August 31, 2004 at 12:02:10:

*with a note 'your results may vary'

I've never been into the bottom end of a diesel that the top end wasnt toast. If any plans to sell, then I'd by all means sell and let someone else worry about the o.h.

With that said, I wont build a diesel that I dont pull the block and get everything checked by a machine shop. Cost isnt too bad here and they save me enough on parts that it is normally a wash. Last major rebuild I did took $900 for the machine shop to hot tank and pressure test (David Brown 219), bore all 4 cylinders .020, turn the crank .010, check the head (replace 3 valaves), and reassemble the short block. Only ever put 2 cranks in diesels, one would only turn to .020 and it had already been taken to there other one broke on an ether overload. Rest of the time they would turn clean.

As far as sleeves, dont know on this model. Most of my experience is on Fords and Case/DB's with parent bore blocks. Given the choice 99.9% of the time I should have sold and replaced rather than rebuild (1 exception was a 1290 Case D/B that had been run dry of oil and mains were trashed). May be building a 268 Ford next winter though, so not following my own advice.

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