Re: Rebuilding diesels

Posted by CEB on September 01, 2004 at 10:30:41 from (199.141.125.33):

In Reply to: Re: Rebuilding diesels posted by Ken Macfarlane on September 01, 2004 at 05:25:54:

Ken,

If the tractor is beat up looking anyway, you may want to sell it "as is" on a consignment sale. Get whatever you can get for it and use the money towards a better tractor.
The problem with doing a halfway overhaul job is that it will come back to bite you about a year later. Doing it right will easily run into several thousand dollars for parts alone. If you have to hire someone to fix it, you can double the cost for labor. If it was my tractor, I would not fix a rough looking tractor unless I could do all the work myself. By the way, you can't replace all the main bearings (namely the one closest to the clutch housing) without splitting the tractor on this particular engine. So you might as well buy the out of frame kit and replace the seals as well as long as the tractor would be split anyway. My .02 worth.

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