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NCWayne
05-20-2007 18:47:05
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Re: anyone familar with this engine? in reply to Oldcraneguy, 05-20-2007 08:56:47
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I"m not that familiar with the 3126 but nowdays, in general, it"s just as cheap (or as expensive depending on your point of view) to get a new or reman engine as it is to pull and rebuild one. I recently replaced a 3066 in a customers machine. No reman available from CAT, but a new one was immediately available for right at $14,000. To get a reman from the aftermarket was $8,000 plus shipping both ways, then you had to reuse/rebuild the old turbo, along with swapping many other external parts. With the shipping, a turbo rebuild, misc gaskets, etc, along with the labor to remove and reinstall everything the new engine wasn"t but about $2,000 more. To have pulled the old one and done a complete overhaul would have been around $12,000+/-, again maybe a $2000 savings. If you take into account the amount of downtime if I had gone with the the "reman" and waited on shuipping, or to do an overhaul of the existing engine (several weeks down depending on parts and the machine shop) the extra $2,000 makes the new engine a steal. As it was he got a new engine from fan to muffler and I had everything done in two days. Like I said in most cases nowdays with the cost of labor and the cost to the customer for their machines downtime makes a new or "the right" reman is a no brainer. As far as the 3126 as an engine I"ve heard nothing but good about them. True their used in many "medium to heavy" truck applications that leave the vehicle underpowered but that"s not the engines fault. Used in the right application it"s a pretty good engine.
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