Mobilewrench
Senior Member
Have a client with a 544 d10 (s/n 0455344)
His engine has excessive blow by and has recently started to have an over heating problem.
Engine is a Cummins 4bta (s/n 60117914, col 1963). He asked me about replacing the engine. I didn't give him any numbers because it has been about ten years since I have run across a gradall/Cummins that I felt needed it.
My first step was to contact my local Cummins dealer to ask for a quote (I like to have a baseline to make a decision against). Waited about a month, think I called a couple of times in there but couldn't get the right guy on the phone, finally called this morning and just waited for him. He emailed me the quote and I just looked at it. It seems unreasonably high to me, but I don't often buy engines.
Its Friday evening now so I can't contact any other places for competitive quotes so I thought I would throw the numbers up on the forum to see what anybody else thought.
$12,128.56 for the reman, $1300 for freight (engine barged from the mainland to Hawaii Island, core back to Oahu). About 120 days lead time. I think an internet search showed me a company that provides new 4bt's for less than half that price (I dunno, "agkits" maybe?)
I don't really want to do the overhaul myself. According to the data tag the engine was already remanufactured at least once. There was a time when I would have, but it is a time consuming process and all of my time is spent on just trying to keep the machines in my stable up and running and I am about three or four weeks behind just doing that.
Thanks in advance for any help.
His engine has excessive blow by and has recently started to have an over heating problem.
Engine is a Cummins 4bta (s/n 60117914, col 1963). He asked me about replacing the engine. I didn't give him any numbers because it has been about ten years since I have run across a gradall/Cummins that I felt needed it.
My first step was to contact my local Cummins dealer to ask for a quote (I like to have a baseline to make a decision against). Waited about a month, think I called a couple of times in there but couldn't get the right guy on the phone, finally called this morning and just waited for him. He emailed me the quote and I just looked at it. It seems unreasonably high to me, but I don't often buy engines.
Its Friday evening now so I can't contact any other places for competitive quotes so I thought I would throw the numbers up on the forum to see what anybody else thought.
$12,128.56 for the reman, $1300 for freight (engine barged from the mainland to Hawaii Island, core back to Oahu). About 120 days lead time. I think an internet search showed me a company that provides new 4bt's for less than half that price (I dunno, "agkits" maybe?)
I don't really want to do the overhaul myself. According to the data tag the engine was already remanufactured at least once. There was a time when I would have, but it is a time consuming process and all of my time is spent on just trying to keep the machines in my stable up and running and I am about three or four weeks behind just doing that.
Thanks in advance for any help.