Posted by Hobo,NC on October 14, 2022 at 18:24:33 from (75.137.54.175):
In Reply to: Piston Rings in 1950's posted by Moonlite37 on October 14, 2022 at 17:39:50:
In the mid 60's a neighbor was always doing engine work under a shad tree. He would let me clean the piston ring groves. I thought he was god. I got to do plenty of ring/valve jobs I would say by the late 70's it all went away and became full blown rebuilds. Think about this you could not get away ringing a 100K engine anymore like you could a 50K engine. On a 100K engine the rod is worn out as other parts they would come back to haunt ya. You could ring a 50K engine to get it to 100K but lost your arse ringing a 100K engine to get it to 200K.
In the early 80's a complete engine rebuild ran about $800 SHOCK! Transmission rebuilds at that time ran about 250/350 and I made good money at it.
By the 90's engines moved toward 3K and transmissions 800 to 1000.
By 2000 engines worked there way toward 4K and transmissions in the 2K plus range.
The last few engine I replaced exceeded 5K a few passed the 8K mark. Transmissions can easily get north of 4K.
I don't dig deep into either anymore. Quite a few in the business started to listen to me and dropped major engine and transmission work unless it was backed with a car manufacture warranty. Sooner are later you will lose your shirt let the manufacture deal with it : ) Unless the builder has the capability to warrant the part local in house I don't deal with them life is good.
Question, as this is moving into lawyer money would you ask a lawyer to build a engine for you...
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