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Re: What's Your Restoration Cost?
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Posted by Tom on August 07, 2003 at 19:28:04 from (12.86.233.38):
In Reply to: What's Your Restoration Cost? posted by Nathan on August 07, 2003 at 13:33:53:
Depends upon your definition of "restored". Some people just fix the obvious things broken, paint, and call it "restored". To other people restored means every moving piece disasembled, inspected, reworked, repaired or replaced if any wear from original specs. Most folks don't do that. You are looking at $10,000 per tractor and up if you really put them back into "new as it left the factory" condition. Just to restore the lower end of the engine would require: turned crank, balanced crank, main bearings, rod bearings, rods, wrist pins, pistons, rings, sleeves, etc. Camshaft turned, balanced, etc. Oil pump rebuilt, water pump rebuilt, radiator rodded out or re-cored, new wiring harness, etc. etc.
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