I don't look at this as caterpillar trying to run up the bill, They are offering to buy my machine ,deduct the buyout price of $4,000 from the original bill. That is one option that they gave me. Second option was to put the machine back together, bare bones ,deduct the transport costs,deduct the labor charge but I would still have to pay for parts going in,repairs on the head, gaskets, and radiator inspection and reassemble. That part I can understand as being my responsibility,but still out some money .#3option ist
Their response to that is,we don't have any way of testing the engine under a load here. I posed that question to them. They did the stall test .ran it outside for a couple of hours, they said ,everything looked fine.